Capitalism Reassessed

Provides a view of the different types of capitalist economic systems based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations.

Frederic L. Pryor (Author)

9780521190206, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 August 2010

284 pages, 2 b/w illus. 14 tables
22.3 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Between the class conflict of Karl Marx and the methodological individualism of Douglas North lies a gaping hole of knowledge on the origins, performance, drivers, and varieties of capitalism. Pryor's Capitalism Reassessed is a bold, empirically grounded, readable, and smart effort to fill that void. The book will be of interest across the social sciences.' William Milberg, New School for Social Research

Capitalism Reassessed provides a broad view of different types of advanced capitalist economic systems and is based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations. The book looks at why capitalism developed in Western Europe rather than elsewhere. It shows the close influences of the cultural system on the economic system. The analysis compares the economic and social performance of the capitalist economic systems along a variety of economic and social criteria. It also analyzes how capitalism will change in the twenty-first century.

1. Introduction
2. What is capitalism?
3. Origins of capitalism
4. Varieties of capitalism in industrialized nations
5. Cultural influences on the economic system
6. Do some capitalist economic systems perform better than others?
7. Happiness and capitalist economic systems
8. How capitalism will change.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], Political science & theory [JPA], Sociology [JHB]