1st Edition

Radical Economics

By Bruce McFarlane Copyright 1982
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Radical Economics (1982) explores the major themes of radical economics. It begins by considering the shortcomings of orthodox economics, and goes on to consider how radical economics evolved. The question of Marxian economics and how this applies to crucial contemporary issues is then considered, and the book concludes by examining aspects of the Communist bloc’s economic system, where radical... Read more

Introduction.  Part 1. Orthodox Economics and its Problems  1. The Philosophical Bias in Modern Economics  2. The Cambridge School of Economics  3. Kalecki or Keynes?  Part 2. The Radical Response  4. Political Economy and Futurology: Economists’ Responses to Economic Crisis  5. Ricardian Economics and its Revival by Radicals  6. Neo-Ricardians and their Marxist Critics  Part 3. Marxian Economics  7. Orthodox and Marxian Theories of Economic Growth  8. Lenin’s Revolutionary Economics  9. Imperialism in Theory and Practice  Part 4. Socialist Alternatives  10. The ‘Law of Value’ in the USSR  11. Political Economy pf Self-Management in Eastern Europe

Biography

Bruce McFarlane