Economics and power : a Marxist critique

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of illustrations = vii
• Preface and acknowledgements = ix
• List of abbreviations = xi
• 1 Introduction = 1
• The dimensions of power in social sciences = 4
• The unidimensional view of power in economics = 7
• Methodological choices and ontological necessities = 9
• Historical materialism, exploitation and social coercion = 12
• Marx's critique of capital and the critique of power = 14
• Structure of the book = 16
• PART Ⅰ Power in economics = 21
• 2 The economic debate on power = 23
• The contractual approach of Alchian and Demsetz = 26
• Williamson's transaction costs economics = 28
• The property rights approach of Hart and Moore = 30
• The radical political economics of Bowles and Gintis = 32
• Goldberg's institutional perspective = 35
• The terms of the debate = 36
• 3 Power and post Walrasian economics = 45
• Post Walrasian economics = 46
• From Walrasian to post Walrasian economics = 48
• The theoretical results of Walrasian economics = 49
• The role of perfect competition in the debate on power = 52
• Conclusions = 55
• 4 Power demystification = 59
• The categories of post Walrasian economics = 60
• As-if economic history = 63
• History and efficiency = 65
• Free contracting, imperfections and class relations = 66
• Exchange without production = 68
• Production, circulation and the free trader vulgaris = 70
• Scientific research and cultural hegemony = 73
• Conclusions = 76
• PART Ⅱ The ontology of capitalist power and the coercive law of competition = 81
• 5 Marx's critique of capital and competition = 83
• Competition in Marx's work = 86
• Total social capital and competition between individual capitals = 89
• The origins of competition = 91
• Competition and the contradictions of capital = 93
• The development of competition and the process of capital subsumption = 96
• Association against competition = 97
• The end of competition = 99
• Bourgeois economics and the myth of perfect competition = 101
• Conclusions = 104
• 6 Capitalism as a system of power = 112
• Critical realism = 114
• Critical realism and Marxism = 116
• The ontology of power = 118
• The ontology of capitalist power = 124
• Conclusions = 139
• 7 Final remarks = 145
• Formal similarities within opposite conceptions = 146
• Economists as servants of power = 151
• Reorienting the struggle = 155
• Index = 162