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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... , finally, in an empirical, contextual, and historical setting. In contrast to the canny shrewdness of untutored businessmen, traders, hawkers, hucksters, buyers, and sellers, the world over, who 'do' economics on a daily.
... , finally, in an empirical, contextual, and historical setting. In contrast to the canny shrewdness of untutored businessmen, traders, hawkers, hucksters, buyers, and sellers, the world over, who 'do' economics on a daily.
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... empirical facts of the economic life, despite the strenuous effort invested, within the dour kingdom of capital, in compelling asocial, acquisitive behaviour on the part of all and sundry. In this context, it is necessary to remember ...
... empirical facts of the economic life, despite the strenuous effort invested, within the dour kingdom of capital, in compelling asocial, acquisitive behaviour on the part of all and sundry. In this context, it is necessary to remember ...
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... empirical world . In the ' theory ' of demand , the object is merely to suggest that the demand curve has a negative slope : in the theory of supply , to demonstrate the positive slope of the supply curve ( so as neatly to produce ...
... empirical world . In the ' theory ' of demand , the object is merely to suggest that the demand curve has a negative slope : in the theory of supply , to demonstrate the positive slope of the supply curve ( so as neatly to produce ...
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... empirical facts permanently anomalous ! The truth needs be bluntly stated : the economics emperor , and his ( yes , it's a masculinist enterprise ) overflowing , and overfed , legions , have been starkly butt - naked for aeons ; time we ...
... empirical facts permanently anomalous ! The truth needs be bluntly stated : the economics emperor , and his ( yes , it's a masculinist enterprise ) overflowing , and overfed , legions , have been starkly butt - naked for aeons ; time we ...
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... 'what the world must be like prior to any empirical investigation of it and for any scientific attitudes or activities to be possible' (Bhaskar, 1986, p. 6). In this rendering, epistemologies must be both bound and referred to ontology; ...
... 'what the world must be like prior to any empirical investigation of it and for any scientific attitudes or activities to be possible' (Bhaskar, 1986, p. 6). In this rendering, epistemologies must be both bound and referred to ontology; ...
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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