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1. Welfare, Right and the State

   A Framework for Thinking

   By David P. Levine

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

   This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy. Written by a well-known expert of political economy and welfare, it explores the nature of welfare and connects welfare not to basic needs,...

   Published February 10th 2011 by Routledge
2. Object Relations, Work and the Self

   By David P. Levine

   In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work:...

   Published October 6th 2009 by Routledge
3. Economic Theory

   By David P. Levine

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   In these two volumes, David P. Levine undertakes the systematic clarification and further development of the theoretical contributions of classical political economy. It focuses on such central issues in economic theory as: * need, value and exchange * capital and its production * the...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
4. Normative Political Economy

   Subjective Freedom, the Market and the State

   By David P. Levine

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Normative Political Economy explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. It argues that prevailing criteria lack sufficient depth in their understanding of subjective experience. David Levine's arguments cover topics which include: * basic needs, equality and...

   Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge
5. Subjectivity in Political Economy

   Essays on Wanting and Choosing

   By David P. Levine

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book explores the way political economy understands human motivation. In it, the author argues that the assumptions typically made by economists regarding want and choice cannot adequately lay a foundation for answering important questions about the design of economic institutions and the...

   Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge