A History of Contemporary Political Economy and Postmodernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23234897 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stavros Mavroudea (0000-0003-2230-7479, University of Macedonia, corresponding author), Stavros D Mavroudeas (University of Macedonia) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 499-518 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Radical Political Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0486-6134 • E-ISSN: 1552-8502 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0486613406293217 |
| OpenAlex | W1995518647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 36 |
The study of the history of economic theory is entwined with nonneoclassical and especially Marxist political economic analyses, which relate the creation of an autonomous science of economic relations to the establishment of capitalism. Usually, the main agents in this interaction are social groups and especially social classes. Contrarily, neoclassical orthodoxy understands the history of economic theory as mere history of economic thought, a succession of personal contributions with limited relation to socioeconomic conditions. The relation between economy and economic theory is theorized through an asocial perspective, because social classes and politics are excluded and methodological individualism reigns. Recent postmodernist interpretations advance a historicist, relativist, politicist view. The reasons for creating an autonomous science of economic relations are to be found not in socioeconomic relations but mainly in the field of the political. This article criticizes postmodernist interpretations from a Marxist perspective, rejecting them as historically unfounded and analytically infertile.
Capitalism · Economics · Epistemology · Historicism · Marxist philosophy · Methodological individualism · Neoclassical economics · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Essays in positive economics
The second industrial divide
Economics As Discourse
The Retreat from Class
Postmodernism and Theories of Value
The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric
Postmodernism and the Social Theory of Value
Postmodernism and Economics
Freedom, Equality and the Market
Sociology of Postmodernism
Dissemination
The Order of Things
Postmodernism, Marxism, and the Critique of Modern Economic Thought
The postmodern crisis in economics and the revolution against modernism
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Freedom, Equality and the Market
Marxism and the Post-Modern Condition
History in Pieces
Regulation Theory
Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology
What is the Postmodern Agenda? An Introduction
Institutional Individualism
Historical Alternatives to Mass Production
Reflexivity, Recursion and Social Life
Specters of Marx
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Marxism
Flexible specialization versus post-Fordism
A political genealogy of political economy
Morphology and pathology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2016 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |