Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781135155582
ISBN-13 : 1135155585
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Synopsis Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals) by : Janet Sayers

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State frequently turn to this book in an attempt to find validation for their central argument. The contributors to this volume reconsider Engels' theories and review evidence from those societies that have attempted to implement his belief that the key to the emancipation of women lies in their entry to social production.

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781136629556
ISBN-13 : 1136629556
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Synopsis Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) by : E. J. Mishan

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.

Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781134621484
ISBN-13 : 1134621485
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Synopsis Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals) by : Richard Higgott

The articles in this edited collection, first published in 1985, consider the competing theories of the nature of development and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia. Each chapter challenges the academic orthodoxies and dominant traditions of Southeast Asian studies, particularly in relation to orientalist history, behaviourist political science and development economics. Overall, the contributions offer an alternative framework for analysis, which considers the structural changes to the political economy of Southeast Asia, as well as the relationship between the state, economy and class at a domestic level. This is a fascinating collection, of value to students and academics with an interest in Southeast Asian politics, economics and history.

The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)

The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781135040390
ISBN-13 : 1135040397
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Synopsis The Value Dimension (Routledge Revivals) by : Ben Fine

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transformation of values into prices. The collection brings together major contributions on the value theory debate from the decade prior to the book’s publication, and assesses the debate’s significance for wider issues. Value theory emerges as much more than a technical relation between labour time and prices, and the structure of the capitalist economy is scrutinised. This is a relevant and comprehensive work, valuable to students, academics and professionals with an interest in political and Marxist economy.

Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals)

Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781135229825
ISBN-13 : 1135229821
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Synopsis Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals) by : John Gray

Liberalisms, a work first published in 1989, provides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years. John Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers including J. S. Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F. A Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and explores their mutual connections and differences.

Marxist Political Economy

Marxist Political Economy
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Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780415678520
ISBN-13 : 0415678528
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Synopsis Marxist Political Economy by : Geoffrey Pilling

Little has been written about the colonists sent by Spanish authorities to settle the northern frontier of New Spain, to stake Spain's claim and serve as a buffer against encroaching French explorers. "Los Paisanos," they were called--simple country people who lived by their own labor, isolated, threatened by hostile Indians, and restricted by law from seeking opportunity elsewhere. They built their homes, worked their fields, and became permanent residents.

The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)

The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781317744320
ISBN-13 : 1317744322
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Synopsis The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) by : Nancy Armstrong

In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable. This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. They did so without appearing to breed political controversy because it seemed to concern only the female. But writing for and about women in fact became a powerful instrument of hegemony as it introduced a whole new vocabulary for social relations, induced certain forms of economic behaviour as desirable in men and women respectively, and insured the reproduction of the nuclear family. It is argued, therefore, that the literature of conduct not only recorded but also assisted the production of our contemporary gender-based culture.

Keynes, Sraffa and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory

Keynes, Sraffa and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory
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Total Pages : 451
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ISBN-10 : 9780415664509
ISBN-13 : 0415664500
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Synopsis Keynes, Sraffa and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory by : Heinz D. Kurz

Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to his outstanding contributions on the occasion of his 65thbirthday by bringing together a unique collection of new essays by distinguished economists from around the world. Keynes, Sraffa, and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory comprises twenty-three essays, covering themes in Keynesian economic theory, in the development of the modern classical approach to economic theory, linear production models, and the critique of neoclassical theory. The essays in this book will be an invaluable source of inspiration for economists interested in economic theory and in the evolution of economic thought. They will also be of interest to postgraduate and research students specialising in economic theory and in the history of economic thought.

Revisiting Classical Economics

Revisiting Classical Economics
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Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9781317907978
ISBN-13 : 1317907973
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Synopsis Revisiting Classical Economics by : Heinz Kurz

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, developed. This book may also be seen as a response to this interest. What can we learn from the authors mentioned, what we could not learn from the mainstream? This volume contains a selection of essays which deepens and widens the understanding of the classical approach to important problems, such as value and distribution, growth and technical progress, and exhaustible natural resources. It is the fourth collection in a row and reflects an on-going discussion of the fecundity of the classical approach. A main topic of the essays is a comparison between the classical approaches with modern theory and thus an identification of what can be learned by elaborating on the ideas of Smith and Ricardo and Marx above and beyond and variously in contradiction to certain mainstream view. Since the work of Piero Sraffa spurred the revival of classical economic thought, his contributions are dealt with in some detail. The attention then focuses on economic growth and the treatment of exhaustible resources within a classical framework of the analysis.

Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9781317207122
ISBN-13 : 1317207122
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Synopsis Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals) by : Raphael Samuel

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present — historical consciousness — to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.