Against Economics: Rethinking Political EconomyPublished in 1997, this postmodern critique provides a discourse on internal dynamics of the economics world view, suggesting for future societal wellbeing that we simply do not criticize economics but dispense it altogether. It argues that in the modern era economics have become obsolete as we live in a society riddled with corruption. |
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... Marxian economics as well) is now an unassailable obstacle to understanding human behaviour in the material sphere, which is anything but autonomous from other allied areas of societal endeavour. Materialism was a bold modernist effort ...
... Marxian economics as well) is now an unassailable obstacle to understanding human behaviour in the material sphere, which is anything but autonomous from other allied areas of societal endeavour. Materialism was a bold modernist effort ...
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... Marxian economic theorizing can escape unscathed from the implicit critique immanent in the realist framework. In fact, it could not be otherwise, considering that realism is a devastating refutation of positivism, and positivism – in ...
... Marxian economic theorizing can escape unscathed from the implicit critique immanent in the realist framework. In fact, it could not be otherwise, considering that realism is a devastating refutation of positivism, and positivism – in ...
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... Marxian schema which render some of its suppositions invalid . Central to a critique of Marx is a rejection of the ' material base / ideational superstructure ' metaphor , an important element of both Stalinist and non - Stalinist ...
... Marxian schema which render some of its suppositions invalid . Central to a critique of Marx is a rejection of the ' material base / ideational superstructure ' metaphor , an important element of both Stalinist and non - Stalinist ...
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... Marxian discourse are of critical interest. He argues that there is something very misconceived in the traditional Marxian maimer of lumping together all ideas, indiscriminately, to form a bloc termed a superstructure, as distinguished ...
... Marxian discourse are of critical interest. He argues that there is something very misconceived in the traditional Marxian maimer of lumping together all ideas, indiscriminately, to form a bloc termed a superstructure, as distinguished ...
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... Marxian theorizing : ideational structures are not reflexes of an all - determining material ' base ' in fact the idea of a material determination is devoid of content altogether . Away from the stasis of a fixed ' base ' , Bhaskar ...
... Marxian theorizing : ideational structures are not reflexes of an all - determining material ' base ' in fact the idea of a material determination is devoid of content altogether . Away from the stasis of a fixed ' base ' , Bhaskar ...
Contents
Prolegomena to Liberation | |
An Overview | |
A Resumé of Issues | |
A Retrospective on Some Foibles of | |
From Policy to Paradigm | |
Paradigm Shift | |
Clarifying a Conjecture | |
Eclipse of a Notion | |
Rethinking Political Economy | |
Bibliography | |
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