... 0 1988 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/88/$1.50 Abstract labour as a metaphor? A comment on Steedman Heiner Ganssmann I. Steedman (1985) has, after the rather devastating critique of the Marxian theory of value in his Marx after...

...Amedeo Fossati On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences: Critical Edition . Edited by Silvestri Paolo . London : Routledge , 2017 . 155 ; $170.00 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Einaudi Luigi . 1938...

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... that his concept of ‘abstract la- bour’ is less transparent and more elusive-and it is to this ‘abstract la- bour,’ and not to any particular concrete form of labour, that Marx relates his central notion of value. The purpose of this essay is to present an interpretation of Marx’s concepts...

... . 1988 . Marx's view of competition and price determination. HOPE . 20 . 2 ( Summer ): 275 -97. Ilyenkov , E. V. 1982 . The dialectics of the abstract and the concrete in Marx's Capital . Moscow: Progress Publishers. Indart , Gustavo . 1987–88 . Marx's law of market value. Science...

... or abstract economics, and begins “What is now commonly understood by the term ‘political economy’ (321 The last section focuses on applied economics and 1. One of Hollander’s purposes would seem to be to show that a long list of distinguished interpreters, from Nassau Senior to Mark Blaug...

... in the abstract sphere of logic.” Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s “Philosophy of right,” trans. Annette Jolin and Joseph O’Malley (Cambridge, 1970), 14. And Marx criti- cizes Proudhon’s substitution of abstract generalities for actual historical understanding in this passage: “The division of labor...

... of a continuing paradox in economics. On the one hand, economic theory is becoming in- creasingly abstract; on the other hand, the ultimate justification for economics is to claim some actual or eventual policy relevance. But policy relevance is contingent upon the capability of making accurate...

... of economic theory he had devel- oped in Principles: a very general and abstract theory, which unifies all true fragments of existing economic knowledge. He argues that this approach deserves a place side by side with others, such as empirical and applied economic theory. We may say that Menger wanted...

... to the author’s failure to age his ideas and to abstract them into a more articulatable analysis, and partly to the vague and groping na- ture of his literary interpretations. The book is provocative and frustrating because it makes us aware of a stream of abstract theory completely outside...

... to economics, the author raises the question of the role of abstractions in determining human behavior. Be- fore discussing the role of abstractions, in chapter 1 he reviews the literature on the influence of economic ideas in the past two hundred years. Apparently economists really do believe...

... with James Mill and Francis Horner. Moreover, the difference between practical and scientific knowledge which is, according Stewart, a difference in the use of abstraction, coincides with Ricardo's distinction between questions of facts and of principles. This connection, which appears in Ricardo's work...

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... and open to causal explanation, and that the vaunted collective concepts that litter the social sciences, such as the state, were also best understood as abstractions from individual social action. Rational action itself was such a type, as were the types constructed from it. This famous discussion...

... and explanatory ambitions in economic theorizing. In contrast to encompassing empiricism, it en- courages the employment of strong isolations and abstractions in search of comprehension of what is not accessible to ordinary commonsense experience. The primary object of the interpretive analyses that follow...

... standpoint can be briefly characterized by the remark that historical and abstract methods are not inconsis- tent with each other, that the sole difference lies in their interests in different problems. (1908, 6-7, my translation) According to instrumentalist methodology, theory is an instrument...

... to the neoclassical theorists. In seeking to formulate a rigorous theory, the mar- ginalists abstracted from any social and institutional arrangements, thereby trans- forming economic theory into a natural science. The institutions of property exchange, money, and capital were neutralized and presented...

... appli- cation and the phrase applied economics in the writings of current and past economists. He argued that members of the “English school” such as Mill, John Elliott Cairnes, and Nassau Senior believed political econ- omy to be a positive, abstract, deductive science; Keynes also argued...

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