A key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and defended capitalism for more than three centuries.

Heather Whiteside is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada. Her research and writing centre on theories and practices of privatization, financialization, and fiscal austerity.

Introduction: Theory and Debate in Political Economy - antecedents and developments (1) Adam Smith: a wealth of notions (2) Karl Marx: a capital idea (3) William Stanley Jevons: the new margins of economics and the economy (4) John Maynard Keynes: a general's theory (5) Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi: emigrants and iconoclasts (6) Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi: world economy and national crises (7) Feminist Political Economy and Ecological Economics: home and away