Profitable Ideas

The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17804-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. The emergence and spread of individualist ideas has been scrutinised to an extent, but with insufficient attention to the manner in which they have been bound up with the opportunities and obstacles to accumulation at different stages of capitalist development. To this end this book shows that as the capitalist system develops, continuously generating new interests and societal conflicts, the theories, doctrines and moral precepts comprising liberal individualism change and evolve, while its vital social function is preserved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Flynn, Micheal

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Decline of Feudal Ideas
2. The Individualism of Hobbes and Locke
3. Individualism, Religion and Science
4. The Th eory of Population Pressure
5. Doctrines of Social Evolution
6. Individualism and the Question of Democracy
7. The Ideas of F.A. Hayek
8. Neoliberalism and Capital Accumulation
9. Economic Downturn and Decline of Free Market
Doctrine
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Micheal O'Flynn, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Limerick, is an Associated Lecturer in Social Science with the Open University and teaches sociology part-time at the University of Limerick. He has published articles for Critique: Journal of Socialist Ideas, EU Reporter and book reviews for Review of Radical Political Economy and Millennium.