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Profitable ideas [electronic resource]

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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.

Title Profitable ideas [electronic resource] : the ideology of the individual in capitalist development / by Micheal O'Flynn.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preliminary Material / M. O’Flynn -- Introduction / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 1. The Decline Of Feudal Ideas / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 2. The Individualism Of Hobbes And Locke / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 3. Individualism, Religion And Science / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 4. The Theory Of Population Pressure / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 5. Doctrines Of Social Evolution / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 6. Individualism And The Question Of Democracy / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 7. The Ideas Of F.A. Hayek / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 8. Neoliberalism And Capital Accumulation / M. O’Flynn -- Chapter 9. Economic Downturn And Decline Of Free Market Doctrine / M. O’Flynn -- Conclusion / M. O’Flynn -- Bibliography / M. O’Flynn -- Index / M. O’Flynn.
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234
v. 15
Extent 1 online resource (208 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010714533805171
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