La 4e de couverture indique : "Dans le premier chapitre du Capital, Marx caractérise l'économie vulgaire en ces termes : elle « se contente des apparences [...] et se borne à élever pédantesquement en système et à proclamer comme vérités éternelles les illusions dont le bourgeois aime...

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...