Overview
- Provides a comprehensive theory of capital, showing how capital involves relations of economic freedom that put in jeopardy the very rights in whose exercise they consist
- Broadens understanding of the ethical dimension of commodity exchange, production, capital accumulation, and competition
- Offers readers a thorough critique of the three volumes of Marx’ Capital, as well as a positive alternative to the other major schools of modern economics
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The System of Interacting Capitals
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises. The author shows how, contrary to classical political economy and contemporary economics, the theory of capital is an a priori normative account properly belonging to ethics. Exposing and overcoming the limits of the economic conceptions of Hegel and Marx, Rethinking Capital determines how the system of capitals shapes economic freedom, jeopardizing the very rights in whose exercise it consists. Winfield thereby provides the understanding required to guide the private and public interventions with which capitalism can be given a human face.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, USA. He is President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy and past President of both the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. His previous eighteen books include Reason and Justice (1988), The Just Economy (1988), Law in Civil Society (1995), Systematic Aesthetics (1995), The Just Family (1998), The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government (2005), Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (2007), Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (2010), The Living Mind: From Psyche to Consciousness (2011), Hegel’s Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures (2012), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (2013), Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy (2014), and The Intelligent Mind: On the Origin and Constitution of Discursive Thought (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Capital
Authors: Richard Dien Winfield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39841-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39840-2Published: 10 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81977-8Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39841-9Published: 01 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 461
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Business Ethics, Economic Policy, Economic History