Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Prolegomena to Critical Theory -- The History of Critical Theory -- Critical and Traditional Theory -- Critical Theory and Economics -- 2 Prolegomena to Economic Theory -- Foundations of Contemporary Economics -- Distributional Theories -- The Impotence of the Behavioural "Critique" -- 3 Dialectical-Critical Reflection -- A Critique of Positivism: From Metaphysical Ontologism to Mathematical Formalism -- Dialectics as a Reaction to Positivism
Dialectical Totality and the Pseudoconcrete -- 4 Subject and Reason -- Instrumental Reason and Contemporary Economics -- Rational Attitude Towards Self-Preservation -- Metamorphosis of the Subject and Its Objectification -- 5 Immanence and the Transcendence of Contemporary Inequality -- On the Worthiness of De-ontologised Positivism -- Heteronomous Agents and the Transcendence of the Market Economy -- The Immanence of Unequal Distribution -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary
This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists