Economics, Science and Capitalism Westra Richard
Economics, Science and Capitalism Westra Richard Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position. This simultaneously exposes…
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Economics, Science and Capitalism Westra Richard
Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position. This simultaneously exposes the vacuousness of neoclassical economics, the limitations of heterodox critique and the subverting of Karl Marx's revolutionary economic thought by his own disciples.The book draws in particular on two key intellectual traditions in making its arguments: critical realism and Marxism. This book critiques the criticizers, explaining why heterodox economics challenges have faltered, and then presents a coherent alternative paradigm of its own.
However, in their theoretical constructions, neither From the refounding of critical realist philosophy of science in the hands of Roy Bhaskar, emphasis is placed upon the position that the ontological nature of the object of study determines the form of its possible science.