Robin Maialeh

Critical Theory and Economics

Philosophical Notes on Contemporary Inequality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781032437828
• ISBN-10: 1032437820
• Artikelnr.: 71710127

Autorenporträt

Robin Maialeh, Director of Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Prolegomena to Critical Theory
1.1 The History of Critical Theory
1.2 Critical and Traditional Theory
1.3 Critical Theory and Economics
2. Prolegomena to Economic Theory
2.1 Foundations of Contemporary Economics
2.3 The impotence of the Behavioural "Critique"
3. Dialectical-Critical Reflection
3.1 A critique of Positivism: From Metaphysical Ontologism to Mathematical
Formalism
3.2 Dialectics as a Reaction to Positivism
3.3 Dialectical Totality and the Pseudoconcrete
4. Subject and Reason
4.1 Instrumental Reason and Contemporary Economics
4.2 Rational Attitude Towards Self-Preservation
4.3 Metamorphosis of the Subject and Its Objectification
5. Immanence and the Transcendence of Contemporary Inequality
5.1 On the Worthiness of de-Ontologised Positivism
5.2 Heteronomous Agents and the Transcendence of the Market Economy
5.3 The Immanence of Unequal Distribution
Conclusion
References