Understand that we have preconceived ideas about whether capitalism is ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
Understand how the institutional and evolutionary approaches in our discipline help analyze capitalism
Pave the way to David Harvey’s theory of the spatio-temporal fix (a geographical theory that helps explain how capitalism tries to overcome its crises)
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