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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... economic theorizing, Marxist or neoclassical, and the social object that they claim to either describe, explain, or predict, that few questions are ever addressed to the realist content of their suppositions.1 Even when these contending ...
... economic theorizing, Marxist or neoclassical, and the social object that they claim to either describe, explain, or predict, that few questions are ever addressed to the realist content of their suppositions.1 Even when these contending ...
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... Neoclassical theorizing, for example, in almost all its forms, has relied upon the atomized individual as the unit of social action and behaviour, in the manner of methodological individualism à la Popper (1962), seeing society as only ...
... Neoclassical theorizing, for example, in almost all its forms, has relied upon the atomized individual as the unit of social action and behaviour, in the manner of methodological individualism à la Popper (1962), seeing society as only ...
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... economics included – found itself in the prison of these apparently irreconcilable dichotomies with disputes routinely falling into the premeasured no ... neoclassical theory can be convincingly refuted, while orthodox Marxism and.
... economics included – found itself in the prison of these apparently irreconcilable dichotomies with disputes routinely falling into the premeasured no ... neoclassical theory can be convincingly refuted, while orthodox Marxism and.
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Rethinking Political Economy Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. neoclassical theory can be convincingly refuted, while orthodox Marxism and Stalinism can equally be rejected in favour of the original insights in the classical Marx, insights into ...
Rethinking Political Economy Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. neoclassical theory can be convincingly refuted, while orthodox Marxism and Stalinism can equally be rejected in favour of the original insights in the classical Marx, insights into ...
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... economic theory, although varied and complex, are quite decisive. As mentioned early on, neither neoclassical theorizing nor conventional Marxian economic theorizing can escape unscathed from the implicit critique immanent in the ...
... economic theory, although varied and complex, are quite decisive. As mentioned early on, neither neoclassical theorizing nor conventional Marxian economic theorizing can escape unscathed from the implicit critique immanent in the ...
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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