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This economic study seeks to cut through the intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph. Samir Amin addresses issues such as changing notions of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; distortions of Marx's method; and the myth of "pure economics".

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Capitalist crisis and the crisis of capitalism; unity and changes in the ideology of political economy; is social history marked by overdetermination or underdetermination?; social revolution and cultural revolution; from the dominance of economics to that of culture - the withering away of the law of value and problems of the transition to communism; postmodernism - a neoliberal utopia in disguise?; communication as ideology; pure economics, or the contemporary world's witchcraft.

Spectres of Capitalism A Critique of Current

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      Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1998
      ISBN13: 9780853459347, 978-0853459347
      ISBN10: 853459347

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This economic study seeks to cut through the intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph. Samir Amin addresses issues such as changing notions of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; distortions of Marx's method; and the myth of "pure economics".

      Table of Contents
      Capitalist crisis and the crisis of capitalism; unity and changes in the ideology of political economy; is social history marked by overdetermination or underdetermination?; social revolution and cultural revolution; from the dominance of economics to that of culture - the withering away of the law of value and problems of the transition to communism; postmodernism - a neoliberal utopia in disguise?; communication as ideology; pure economics, or the contemporary world's witchcraft.

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