With the rise of the New Right, the demise of state socialism, and the development of concerns over the nature of modernity, the reception of Marxist and radical theories of capitalist society has become, to say the least, skeptical. In this book Andrew Sayer rethinks and reformulates radical political economy.
The author argues that Marxist theories of capitalism must learn both from the problems of socialism and, more controversially, from liberalism. In a major critique of Marxist and post-Marxist political economy he argues that one of its central problems may be traced to...
With the rise of the New Right, the demise of state socialism, and the development of concerns over the nature of modernity, the reception of Marxist ...
A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in modernist social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.
A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and det...
