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AbstractThis chapter on economic criticism assesses two recent books on the changing state of global capitalism. It then moves to a consideration of recent debates over neoliberalism as a category for thinking the relationship between economics and culture, before turning to a critical assessment of recent public-choice scholarship on state capacity and religious toleration.

AbstractCriticism and self-criticism have far reaching impacts on wellbeing and emotional balance. In order to create better interventions for criticism and self-criticism, more in-depth knowledge about these two constructs is required. The goal of our study was to examine three associations for criticism and self-criticism. The data were collected from a sample of 151 psychology students: 114 women and 37 men (Mean age 22.2; SD 4.4). We were interested in the associations participants would produce in relation to criticism and self-criticism, whether participants conceptualized these two concepts in the same categories and whether the categories were equally important for each concept. The data were analyzed using Consensual Qualitative research (CQR). The team consisted of four core members and one auditor. Separately all four members analyzed the data multiple times and then discussed it until all the researchers including the auditor reached a consensus. We identified four domains common to both criticism and self-criticism. These were – Emotional Aspects, Cognitive Aspects, Behavioral Aspects, and Preconditions. For both stimulus words, the most saturated domain was Behavioral Aspects. These findings suggest that both concepts – criticism and self-criticism – are multidimensional constructs consisting of Behavioral Aspects, Cognitive aspects, Emotional Aspects, and Preconditions. Further research on this topic would be beneficial.

Apart from the rather engaging phrasing of its title, Macpherson's reply to my criticisms of him must be judged a disappointment. For it either misses or entirely avoids their point.I must remind Macpherson that it is he, not I, who conceives the task of political theory as one which deduces political obligation from the nature of man, or derives obligation from fact. Consequently, it is incumbent upon him to show how this is to be done. He now claims that it can be done and that it is not necessary to do it. In the former case it is a problem requiring resolution; in the latter a pseudo-problem which can be ignored.

"With an unparalleled talent for distilling sophisticated rhetorical concepts and processes, Sonja Foss highlights ten methods of doing rhetorical criticism--the systematic investigation and explanation of symbolic acts and artifacts. Each chapter focuses on one method, its foundational theories, and the steps necessary to perform an analysis using that method. Foss provides instructions on how to write coherent, well-argued reports of analytical findings, which are then illustrated by sample essays."--Back cover

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This year's review of work in economic criticism focuses on three points of interest that reflect the year's work in economic theory, providing an overview of some of the broader critical enquiries preoccupying the field of economic writing in 2023 and early 2024. The first is the intersection of animal studies and Marxism, exemplified by Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary. The second key aspect of economic writing this year is the overlapping concerns of women, money, and property, represented here in Lana L. Dalley's edited collection, Women's Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century and Jill Rappoport's Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction. The third focus lands on speculative time and futurity within the domain of American literature, capitalism, and finance, as Paul Crosthwaite's Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis astutely captures.

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This review essay considers recent humanistic scholarship, chiefly historical, that raises important questions about the place of the economic in a broader vision of social life. The essay is divided into three sections: 1. Liberal Protectionism covers an important book from Nicholas Mulder on the history of economic sanctions; 2. The Long History of Social Life discusses the recent contribution to social theory by David Graeber and David Wengrow; and 3. Inflation Retheorized calls for an economic critical response to recent developments in macroeconomic theories of inflation.