Modern political economics: making sense of the post-2008 world/
by Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, and Nicholas Theocarakis.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- xv, 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- Book 1: Shades of political economics: seeking clues for 2008 and its aftermath in the economists theories. 2. Condorcet's Secret: on the significance of classical political economics today -- 3. The odd couple: the struggle to square a theory of value with a theory of growth -- 4. The trouble with humans: the source of radical indeterminacy and the touchstone of value -- 5. Crises: the laboratory of the future -- 6. Empires of indifference: Leibniz's calculus and the ascent of Calvinist political economics (with an addendum by George Krimpas entitles 'Leibnis and the "intervention" of General Equilibrium') -- 7. Convulsion: 1929 and its legacy -- 8. A fatal triumph: 2008's ancestry in the stirrings of the Cold War -- 9. A most peculiar failure: the curious mechanism by which neoclassicism's theoretical failures have been reinforcing their dominance since 1950 -- 10. A manifesto for Modern Political Economics: postscript to Book 1 -- Book 2: Modern political economics: theory in action. 11. From the Global Plan to a Global Minotaur: the two distinct phases of post-war US hegemony -- 12. Crash: 2008 and its legacy (with and addendum by George Krimpas entitled 'The Recycling Problem in a Currency Union') -- 13. A future for hope: postscript to Book 2.