Profitable Ideas: The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development

by Micheal O'Flynn

Overview

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and doctrines. As a correction, this book shows that as capitalism the theories, doctrines and moral precepts comprising liberal individualism change and evolve, while its vital social function is preserved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608461998
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	03/20/2012
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Micheal O'Flynn, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Limerick, is an Associated Lecturer in Social Science with the Open University and teaches sociology part-time at the University of Limerick. He has published articles for Critique: Journal of Socialist Ideas, EU Reporter and book reviews for Review of Radical Political Economy and Millennium.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Decline of Feudal Ideas
2. The Individualism of Hobbes and Locke
3. Individualism, Religion and Science
4. The Th eory of Population Pressure
5. Doctrines of Social Evolution
6. Individualism and the Question of Democracy
7. The Ideas of F.A. Hayek
8. Neoliberalism and Capital Accumulation
9. Economic Downturn and Decline of Free Market
Doctrine
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index