Economics, Science and Capitalism

Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position. Reclaiming Marx's revolutionary legacy, this book critiques the criticizers, explaining why heterodox economics challenges have faltered, and then presents a coherent alternative paradigm of its own.

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Richard Westra is University Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Opole and Research Coordinator at the Science and Technology Park, Opole, Poland. He has previously taught at universities in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Canada and The Bahamas and is international Adjunct Professor of the Center for Macau Studies, University of Macau.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Economics and "the economy" 2 How economics forgot capitalism 3 Economics caught in a physics masquerade 4 Rethinking science and social science with critical realism 5 Rethinking Marx and the economic science of Capital 6 The Uno-Sekine reconstruction of Capital: Microeconomics of value, macroeconomics of crises 7 Levels of analysis in Marxian political economy 8 Marxists and Marx's unfinished project in Capital 9 Conclusion: Capital, science and political economy in the narrow and comprehensive sense