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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... Enlightenment; but the protesters were, for the large part, silenced by cannon, co-option, and chicanery. Today, on the brink of genocidal and commercial wars, dire planetary involutions, and environmental disasters, it is likely that ...
... Enlightenment; but the protesters were, for the large part, silenced by cannon, co-option, and chicanery. Today, on the brink of genocidal and commercial wars, dire planetary involutions, and environmental disasters, it is likely that ...
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... Enlightenment – women, minorities, tribals, etc. – in restless, inchoate effulgence, are stirring, apparently at long last, to shake off its venomous coils. Social knowledge is contextual, never general; individuals are variable ...
... Enlightenment – women, minorities, tribals, etc. – in restless, inchoate effulgence, are stirring, apparently at long last, to shake off its venomous coils. Social knowledge is contextual, never general; individuals are variable ...
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... Enlightenment, that dire harbinger of the Age of Vandalism, and the blight of the convivial world, for far too long. Of all forms of repressive desublimation, the despiritualisation of reality (which Max Weber was to call the ...
... Enlightenment, that dire harbinger of the Age of Vandalism, and the blight of the convivial world, for far too long. Of all forms of repressive desublimation, the despiritualisation of reality (which Max Weber was to call the ...
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... enlightened' Marxist occasionally tried to reconcile the antimony between these two opposed views by trying to link them 'dialectically' (Berger, 1967) – implying that socially predetermined individuals nonetheless were able to react ...
... enlightened' Marxist occasionally tried to reconcile the antimony between these two opposed views by trying to link them 'dialectically' (Berger, 1967) – implying that socially predetermined individuals nonetheless were able to react ...
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... Enlightenment): in his words (Comte, 1893, pp. 37–8), ' ...the positive spirit tends to consolidate order, by the rational development of a wise resignation to incurable political evils ... A true resignation – that is, a permanent ...
... Enlightenment): in his words (Comte, 1893, pp. 37–8), ' ...the positive spirit tends to consolidate order, by the rational development of a wise resignation to incurable political evils ... A true resignation – that is, a permanent ...
Contents
Prolegomena to Liberation | |
An Overview | |
A Resumé | |
A Retrospective on Some Foibles of | |
Clues to a Critique | |
From Policy to Paradigm | |
Toward Restitution | |
The Parameters | |
Clarifying a Conjecture | |
Eclipse of a Notion | |
In Dubious Debate | |
Contra Theses on Feuerbach | |
Rethinking Political Economy | |
Bibliography | |
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