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From Fetishism to ‘Shocked Disbelief ’: Economics, Dialectics and Value Theory

From Fetishism to ‘Shocked Disbelief ’: Economics, Dialectics and Value Theory Abstract The recent arrival of From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics by Fine and Milonakis is especially propitious given the context of the Great Recession of 2008 – and the associated decline of public faith in the verities of mainstream economics. Fine and Milonakis provide a magisterial critical survey of contemporary economics and demonstrate the need for a ‘new and truly interdisciplinary political economy’ capable of ‘incorporating the social and historical from the outset’. But their cause requires the explicit development of value analysis within the framework of dialectical social theory. This requires foregrounding the ways in which Marx’s categories in Capital are from the start historical precipitates that acknowledge their own inherent historicity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

From Fetishism to ‘Shocked Disbelief ’: Economics, Dialectics and Value Theory

Historical Materialism , Volume 20 (3): 9 – Jan 1, 2012

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Symposium
ISSN
1465-4466
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1569-206X
DOI
10.1163/1569206X-12341255
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Abstract

Abstract The recent arrival of From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics by Fine and Milonakis is especially propitious given the context of the Great Recession of 2008 – and the associated decline of public faith in the verities of mainstream economics. Fine and Milonakis provide a magisterial critical survey of contemporary economics and demonstrate the need for a ‘new and truly interdisciplinary political economy’ capable of ‘incorporating the social and historical from the outset’. But their cause requires the explicit development of value analysis within the framework of dialectical social theory. This requires foregrounding the ways in which Marx’s categories in Capital are from the start historical precipitates that acknowledge their own inherent historicity.

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Historical MaterialismBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2012

Keywords: capitalism; crisis; dialectics; economics; Marx; political economy

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