Critical Theory and Economics

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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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