The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates

Contents
Preface
Introduction • Steven K. Vogel
Part I: Contending Perspectives
	1 The Classics
		Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
		Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” (1848)
		Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy (1841)
	2 The Liberal Paradigm
		Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
		Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
	3 Economic Sociology
		Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944)
		Neil Fligstein, The Architecture of Markets (2001)
	4 The New Institutional Economics
		Douglass C. North, Structure and Change in Economic History (1981
		Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (1990)
	5 Historical Perspectives
		E.J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (1968)
		Alexander Gerschenkron, “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective” (1951)
	6 Political Science and Political Economy
		Charles E. Lindblom, Politics and Markets (1977)
		Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism (2001)
Part II: Contemporary Debates
	1 Market Reform
		Deepak Lal, Reviving the Invisible Hand (2006)
		Steven K. Vogel, Marketcraft (2018)
	2 Market Transition
		Anders Åslund, How Capitalism Was Built (2013)
		Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016)
	3 Market Development
		Arvind Panagariya, Free Trade & Prosperity (2019)
		Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes (2007)
		Naazneen H. Barma, “Economic Development: From Orthodoxy toHeterodoxy” (2021)
		Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999)
	4 Climate Change
		John Asafu-Adjaye et al., “An Ecomodernist Manifesto” (2015)
		Jeremy Caradonna et al., “A Call to Look Past An Ecomodernist Manifesto: A Degrowth Critique” (2015)
	5 The Global Financial Crisis
		Peter Wallison, “The True Story of the Financial Crisis” (2011)
		Joseph E. Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and The Sinking of The World Economy (2010)
	6 Inequality
		N. Gregory Mankiw, “Defending the One Percent” (2013)
		Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
	7 The Digital Platform Economy
		Tyler Cowen, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero (2019)
		Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State (2013)
		Lina M. Khan, “Sources of Tech Platform Power” (2018)
	8 The COVID-19 Pandemic
		Brink Lindsey, “What the Pandemic Revealed” (2020)
		Carolina Alves and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, “Changing the Narrative: Economics After COVID-19” (2020)
Index