Profitable Ideas : The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development.
Title:
Profitable Ideas : The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development.
Author:
O'Flynn, Micheal.
ISBN:
9789047444954
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Series:
Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 15 ; v.15
Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 15
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Decline of Feudal Ideas -- Chapter 2 The Individualism of Hobbes and Locke -- Chapter 3 Individualism, Religion and Science -- Chapter 4 The Theory of Population Pressure -- Chapter 5 Doctrines of Social Evolution -- Chapter 6 Individualism and the Question of Democracy -- Chapter 7 The Ideas of F.A. Hayek -- Chapter 8 Neoliberalism and Capital Accumulation -- Chapter 9 Economic Downturn and Decline of Free Market Doctrine -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book scrutinises the development of liberal individualism in terms of its social function, connecting related doctrine and principle to the opportunities and obstacles to capital accumulation over the course of modern history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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