TY - BOOK AU - Levy,Jonathan TI - The real economy : history and theory SN - 9780691252551 U1 - 33 CY - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024 N1 - Jonathan Levy is the James Westfall Thompson Professor in the Department of History and a member of the John U. Neff Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago N2 - Drawing inspiration particularly from Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard Keynes, Levy proposes a theory of the economy that is open to rich empirical and historical scrutiny, covering topics that include the emergence of capitalism, the notion of radical uncertainty, the meaning of demand, the primal desire for money, the history of corporations, and contemporary globalization. Writing for anyone interested in the study of the economy, Levy provides an invaluable provocation for a broader debate in the social sciences and humanities concerning what "the economy" is ER -