Quality of Society, Volume II

Adolfo Figueroa holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Catholic University of Peru. He has published several books with Palgrave: The Quality of Society, Economics of the Anthropocene Age, Rules for Scientific Research in Economics, and Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment. During his distinguished academic career, Figueroa served as a visiting professor at American, European, and Latin American universities. And he participated in several international collaborative research projects (at the University of Oxford, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and other institutions). As a professional economist, he worked as consultant to several international organizations (including the World Bank, ILO, UNDP, FAO, and IFAD), doing fieldwork in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

• Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Contents.- Chapter 1_Introduction To Unified Theory Of Capitalism.- Chapter 2_Scientific Economic Laws Of Capitalism.- Chapter 3_European Colonialism And Capitalist Development.- Chapter 4_Hobsbawm’s Question On Peasantry.- Chapter 5_On Economic Behavior of Workers.- Chapter 6_Market Prices In The Anthropocene Age.- Chapter 7_Inequality, Power Relations, And Democracy.- Chapter 8_Toughest Challenge Of Economics: Human Society Isn’t Immortal.- Conclusions.- References.- Author Index_Countries Index_Subject Index.