Knowledge Class And Economics

Author : Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351798075

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Knowledge, Class, and Economics by Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre Pdf

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff’s writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered—contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).

Author : Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315206781

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Knowledge, Class, and Economics by Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre Pdf

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guaranteessurveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume's 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School--the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff's writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered--contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).

Author : Stephen A. Resnick,Richard D. Wolff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226710235

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Knowledge and Class by Stephen A. Resnick,Richard D. Wolff Pdf

Author : Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351798082

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Knowledge, Class, and Economics by Theodore A. Burczak,Robert F. Garnett Jr.,Richard McIntyre Pdf

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff’s writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered—contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).

Author : Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521436036

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Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics by Deirdre N. McCloskey Pdf

Argues that economics is a science, but a human science: a witty guide to the ins and outs of economic philosophy.

Author : Robert F Garnett Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134621989

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What do Economists Know? by Robert F Garnett Jr Pdf

A provocatively rethink of the questions of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Academic economists in the twentieth century have presumed to monopolise economic knowledge, seeing themselves as the only legitimate producers and consumers of this highly specialized commodity. This has encouraged a narrow view of economics as little more than a private dialogue among professionally licensed knowers. This book recasts this narrow view.

Author : Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Woessmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262548953

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The Knowledge Capital of Nations by Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Woessmann Pdf

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.

Author : Peter Meusburger,Johannes Glückler,Martina Meskioui
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400761315

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Knowledge and the Economy by Peter Meusburger,Johannes Glückler,Martina Meskioui Pdf

The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, location and economic development are all live academic issues. This book, the fifth volume in Springer’s Knowledge and Space series, focuses on the last of these: the multiple relationships between knowledge, the economy, and space. It reflects the conceptual and methodological multidisciplinarity emerging from this scholarship, yet where there has up to now been a notable lack of communication between some of the contributing disciplines, resulting in lexical and other confusions, this volume brings concord and to foster interdisciplinarity. These complications have been especially evident in our understanding of the spatiality of knowledge, the part that spatial contexts play in knowledge creation and diffusion, and the relevance of face-to-face contacts, all of which are addressed in these pages. The material here is grouped into four sections—knowledge creation and economy, knowledge and economic development, knowledge and networks, and knowledge and clusters. It assembles new concepts and original empirical research from geography, economics, sociology, international business relations, and management. The book addresses a varied audience interested in the historical and spatial foundations of the knowledge economy and is intended to bridge some of the gaps between the differing approaches to research on knowledge, the economy, and space.

Author : Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020733825

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Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge by Roger Backhouse Pdf

Backhouse (history and philosophy of economics, U. of Birmingham, England) believes in truth and progress, but defends them against postmodern skepticism by using some of the same sources it does rather than trying to return to a pre-lapsarian state. He concludes by doubting the success of the conventional division of labor in which economic theorists transmute general assumptions into hypotheses to be tested, and econometricians test those theories statistically and establish empirical generalizations. Those two functions, he says, must interact on a much more intimate level. Some of the material is revised from previous publication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Guglielmo Carchedi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000817546

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Problems in Class Analysis by Guglielmo Carchedi Pdf

First published in 1983, Problems in Class Analysis presents a coherent theory of labour’s domination by capital, based upon the notion of the capitalist nature of both the product relations and of the productive forces themselves, including science and technology. The author demonstrates that all knowledges are a product, direct or indirect, of economic relations, so that different knowledges will be the product of different social classes as determined by their position within economic production relations. By posing and re-solving fundamental problems in class analysis, Dr. Carchedi forms a bridge between the theory of the production process and contemporary debates in economics, sociology and epistemology.

Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674659728

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Veblen by Charles Camic Pdf

A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women. Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. In the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics. Veblen demonstrates how Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive “parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this “sclerosis of the American soul.”

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788734981

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The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Pdf

Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. The confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.

Author : Cristiano Antonelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030055080

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The Knowledge Growth Regime by Cristiano Antonelli Pdf

‘This important new book provides a penetrating, novel analysis of the key role played by knowledge when viewed through the lens of Schumpeterian economics. It is loaded with important insights that highlight the primacy of knowledge and innovation to unleash economic growth.’ —David B. Audretsch, Indiana University Bloomington, USA This book combines the tools elaborated by the economics of knowledge and the legacy of Joseph Schumpeter to explore the emergence of the new knowledge economy and the shift away from the manufacturing industries. Antonelli analyzes the characteristics of the innovation process as a creative response based upon the accumulation, generation and exploitation of knowledge. He highlights the new structure of advanced economies, where knowledge is at the same time the prime input and output. With special attention to the limits of the new knowledge growth regime, raised by the role of finance, income distribution and intellectual property rights, this Palgrave Pivot recommends appropriate economic policies based upon an Open Technology approach.

Author : Knowledge Flow
Publisher : Knowledge Flow
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Basic Economics by Knowledge Flow Pdf

This Basic Economics Book is perfect economic guide to students especially for Class 12 students and anyone who has an interest in how economy works. This book includes a chapter that explaining the income and growth of nation that calculating by GDP. The book explained economics theories by graphics, step-by-step summaries and graphs that help to understand any concepts easily. Topic covers in the Basic Economics book: What is Economics, Types of Economics, Types of Market, Price Discrimination, Giffen's Goods, Economic Surplus, Supply & Demand, Elasticity of Demand, Equilibrium and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Author : Wei-Bin Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642582547

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Capital and Knowledge by Wei-Bin Zhang Pdf

A general economic theory to analyze how different economic forces interact over time. It proposes some new combinations of various economic forces which may function at various stages of social and economic evolution. This theory includes the main economic ideas of Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Mills, Walras, Marshall, Schumpeter and Keynes. It also includes, as special cases, such well-established mathematical models as the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium model, the Tobin model, the Solow-Swan-Uzawa growth model, the Kaldor-Pasinetti two-class model, the Ricardian models by Morishima, Samuelson and Pasinetti, Keynesian theory, to explain certain economic phenomena which cannot be explained by traditional works.