{"id":5417,"date":"2020-08-12T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:19:53","slug":"c-perrotta-is-capitalism-still-progressive-a-historical-approach-palgrave-macmillan-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/c-perrotta-is-capitalism-still-progressive-a-historical-approach-palgrave-macmillan-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Perrotta, &#8220;Is Capitalism Still Progressive? A Historical Approach&#8221; (Palgrave Macmillan 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is Capitalism Still Progressive? A Historical Approach<\/strong><br \/>\nCosimo <strong>Perrotta<\/strong><br \/>\nPalgrave Macmillan, 2020<br \/>\n978-3-030-48168-1<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5420 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Perrotta-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Perrotta-1.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Perrotta-1-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9783030481681#aboutAuthorsIs%20Capitalism%20Still%20Progressive?%20A%20Historical%20Approach\">Book&#8217;s page<\/a> in the Publisher&#8217;s website<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Using economic history and the history of economic thought to inform debate,\u00a0<em>Is Capitalism Still Progressive? A Historical Approach <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p>Professor\u00a0<strong>Cosimo Perrotta<\/strong>\u00a0has 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\u00a0<em>Consumption as an Investment. The Fear of Goods from Hesiod to Adam Smith\u00a0<\/em>(2004) and\u00a0<em>Unproductive labour. History of an Idea<\/em>\u00a0(2018), Routledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong> (9 chapters)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capitalism Creates Progress, Pages 1-19<\/li>\n<li>The Dark Side of Capitalism and Its Myths, Pages 21-37<\/li>\n<li>Capitalistic Accumulation, Pages 39-54<\/li>\n<li>Plundering the World, Pages 55-75<\/li>\n<li>The Welfare State and Its Crisis, Pages 77-94<\/li>\n<li>Broken Promises, Pages 95-111<\/li>\n<li>The New Challenges, Pages 113-127<\/li>\n<li>Labour-Based Development, Pages 129-145<\/li>\n<li>Conclusions: Beyond the Borders, Pages 147-151<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Capitalism Still Progressive? A Historical Approach Cosimo Perrotta Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 978-3-030-48168-1 Book&#8217;s page in the Publisher&#8217;s website 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storep-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storep.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}