Overview
- Addresses the causes and solutions to the present economic crisis
- Proposes restarting development through employment policy (not the reverse)
- Presents the unemployed of young and migrants workers as a solution, not a burden, to the economic crisis
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The economic crisis of 2007/2008 has prompted much debate as to what caused it and what remedies may be implemented in order to regain a healthy economy. This book addresses these issues through the lens of capitalism with a focus on labour economics, arguing that capitalism, and the employment of young people and migrants, may be a suitable antidote to the ongoing political crises in Europe that are taking place as a result of the financial crisis.
Using economic history and the history of economic thought to inform debate, Is Capitalism Still Progressive?: A Historical Approach will be of interest to policy makers (especially in emerging countries), students and researchers interested in exploring the pros and cons, and persistence, of the capitalist system.
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“In this valuable book Cosimo Perrotta investigates the nature, the history and the perspectives of capitalism on the basis of a rich set of historical data. … Perrotta offers a lucid, in-depth historical analysis of the large variety of forms in which capitalistic accumulation takes place.” (Mario Morroni, HEI History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 29 (2), 2021)
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About the author
Professor Cosimo Perrotta has been Council Chair of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, published many articles in the main international journals of this discipline, among other monographs published Consumption as an Investment. The Fear of Goods from Hesiod to Adam Smith (2004) and Unproductive labour. History of an Idea (2018), Routledge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Is Capitalism Still Progressive?
Book Subtitle: A Historical Approach
Authors: Cosimo Perrotta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48169-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48168-1Published: 01 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48171-1Published: 02 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48169-8Published: 31 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 159
Topics: Labor Economics, Economic History, History of Economic Thought/Methodology