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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... ideology of materialism; it is the master tool of forcible transformation of the world in its craven image); today, as in the yesteryear of nineteenth century classical economics, economics is simply the crown jewel of the ideology ...
... ideology of materialism; it is the master tool of forcible transformation of the world in its craven image); today, as in the yesteryear of nineteenth century classical economics, economics is simply the crown jewel of the ideology ...
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... ideology , have rendered barren and desolate , the variably opulent pockets of the 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 ...
... ideology , have rendered barren and desolate , the variably opulent pockets of the 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 ...
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... artificial moon be, that it would rotate just as often round the earth as the economist believes to be 'rational' (i.e. beneficent for capital). No other 'science', other than an ideology blessed with state power , could dare.
... artificial moon be, that it would rotate just as often round the earth as the economist believes to be 'rational' (i.e. beneficent for capital). No other 'science', other than an ideology blessed with state power , could dare.
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Rethinking Political Economy Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. than an ideology blessed with state power , could dare to suggest that , vis - à- vis its canonical ' theoretical ' prejudices , reality is ever - exogenous and empirical facts ...
Rethinking Political Economy Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. than an ideology blessed with state power , could dare to suggest that , vis - à- vis its canonical ' theoretical ' prejudices , reality is ever - exogenous and empirical facts ...
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... ideology that we must pay fealty ; even were a more adequate political economy not to demand the end of economics , the very mildest of human aesthetics would so require it . - The societal life - form is a forever - open crucible of ...
... ideology that we must pay fealty ; even were a more adequate political economy not to demand the end of economics , the very mildest of human aesthetics would so require it . - The societal life - form is a forever - open crucible of ...
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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