Book Review: The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good)
In: Review of radical political economics
ISSN: 1552-8502
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In: Review of radical political economics
ISSN: 1552-8502
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 16-24
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 16
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 469-482
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 469-482
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 453-460
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 453-461
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 17, Issue 4, p. 551-558
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 1-8
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 1-8
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 17, Issue 4, p. 551-558
ISSN: 0893-5696
In: Review of radical political economics, Volume 35, Issue 2, p. 201-204
ISSN: 1552-8502
Presents a critical analysis of Friedrich Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1978 edition) using Louis Althusser's critique of Hegelianism. It is suggested that the vision of socialism offered by Engels is a mirror of that which it sought to destroy, capitalism. Thus, capitalism is veiwed as a completely unified Hegelian totality defined by one central contradiction that would spawn another completely unified, socialist totality. This inversion-as-solution method is criticized for its understanding of history as homogeneous, & for the way in which it reduces the correspondences of thought, history, & action into aspects of a larger unified system. The works of Ernst Laclau (1990), Laclau & Claude Mouffe (1985), Frederic Jameson (1981) & Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff (1987) are reviewed for their nonessentialist understandings of unity. It is asserted that these works point to an analysis of differently constituted cultural economies in terms of how they construct the meaning of the commodity form. Only in this way will a socialism that is not a reflection of laws & contradictions or human nature, but rather, a cultural process, be theoretically imagined. 28 References. D. M. Smith
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 138-144
ISSN: 1475-8059
In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 138-144
ISSN: 0893-5696