Critical Theory and Economics - Couverture rigide

Livre 318 sur 375: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Maialeh, Robin

 
9780367222208: Critical Theory and Economics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0367222205 ISBN 13 : 9780367222208
Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

Economic agents, deliberately imprisoned in their instrumental rationality as a means to survive under competitive relationships, are microscopic constituents of systemic forces which exist beyond their will. Despite the subjective rationality of such agents in terms of formally logical transitivity and consistency, aggregate market distributional mechanisms also display non-rational patterns. The crucial aspect of the dynamics of this system consists of the paralysing effect of the high level of socioeconomic inequality, which is driven by a permanent struggle for self-preservation under competitive rules; it is a reminiscence of natural, uncivilised relationships that constituted the reproduction process of the whole. These reified agents thus become instruments of their socially constructed powers on the one hand, and objects of their existential conditionality on the other. Hence, the dialectical approach adopted by the author aims to uncover the way in which structurally genetic market forces govern individual behaviour, as well as how individual behaviour shapes these structurally genetic forces, which, together, form the transcending principles of unequal distribution.

This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the political economy, philosophy and the methodology of the social sciences, especially those concerned with inequality issues. This book includes a preface written by Professor Martin Jay.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0367222205
ISBN 13 
9780367222208
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781032437828: Critical Theory and Economics

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1032437820 ISBN 13 :  9781032437828
Editeur : Routledge, 2024
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