The Political Economy Reader

Naazneen H. Barma is Director of the Doug and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy, Scrivner Chair, and Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Steven K. Vogel is Chair of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Preface

Introduction, by 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 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 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: How Governments Make Markets Work (2018)

2. Market Transition

Anders Aslund, How Capitalism Was Built (2013)

Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2017)

3. Market Development

Arvind Panagariya, Free Trade & Prosperity (2019)

Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes (2007)

Naazneen H. Barma, "Economic Development: From Orthodoxy to Heterodoxy" (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

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 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)