We argue that storytelling contexts – the way information is communicated through varying credibility sources, visual designs, writing styles, and content delivery – impact the effectiveness of surveys and elections in eliciting preferences formed through critical thinking (reasoned...

"The models in mainstream game theory generally assume that actors act according to a single, consistent utility function. Empirical studies, common sense, and humanistic wisdom all suggest that that assumption is too simple. This book starts with an assumption that actors are controlled by...

The Austrian school economics and neo-Marxist theories both have been reviving in recent years. However, the current academic discussion lacks a debate between two schools of economics with diametrically opposed views. This paper is the first and an initial Austrian challenge to Neo-Marxist...

The Austrian school economics and neo-Marxist theories both have been reviving in recent years. However, the current academic discussion lacks a debate between two schools of economics with diametrically opposed views. This paper is the first and an initial Austrian challenge to Neo-Marxist...

"In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the...

Part I: Basic Framework -- Chapter 1.: Beyond Reification: Envisioning the Earth -- Chapter 2: The Modern Institution of Science -- Chapter 3: The History of Political Economy -- Part II. Conceptual Development and Critique of Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Fictitious Capital: Money, the Symbol and...

Volume 40A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the radical economist David Gordon, edited by our own Luca Fiorito and featuring contributions from Nancy Breen, Richard McGahey, Robert Pollin, and Jim Stanford. The Volume also...

Capitalism in Permanent Crisis 1920s-1930s -- Political Crisis and The Crisis of Modernity: Eastern Europe (1953-1968) -- The Crisis of Keynesianism, The Transformation of Liberal Oligarchies and The Critique of Politics -- The Crisis of Critique, The Eclipse of Subversive Reason and The...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction to Handbook on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory -- PART I THEORY AND EMPIRICS -- Theory -- 2. Social structure of accumulation theory -- Econometrics -- 3. Econometric analysis of long swings: the relevance of...

This book explores the relationship between recent theoretical debates around the fate of critique of neoliberal capitalism and critical theory, on the one hand, and the critical theories generated in and by social movements in Chile, on the other. By taking the idea of social critique as a...

Die Agrar- und Forstpolitiken der EU und Deutschlands stehen in einem politökonomischen Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Wertschöpfung und Rohstoffproduktion als ökonomieorientierte Ziele einerseits, der Ökologisierung der Landnutzung andererseits und schließlich dem Ziel der Förderung der...

Volume 37A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Tiago Mata, celebrating 50 years of the Union of Radical Political Economics. It also includes an essay by Mauro Boianovsky, and is accompanied by a series of reflections from esteemed...

"In response to this current political and economic climate, Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century defends the importance, and difficulties, of teaching Marx and critical theory-and the crucial insights of critical pedagogy-through variously original and republished chapters,...

Volume 37A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodologyfeatures a symposium celebrating 50 years of the Union of Radical Political Economics, and includes an archival contribution from the papers of Alvin Hansen, reflecting on the influence and contributions of John R. Commons.

For Leftists engaged in the study of political economy during the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba and China held particular promise as postrevolutionary states working to construct systems of production and distribution which were predicated on solidarity and mutuality, rather than on the exploited and...

This is a proposal to restate the theory of capital along critical Marxian lines aimed at providing a better integration of the theory of capital with the theory of money and finance. The time value of money must be properly accounted for. An analytical method is proposed to accomplish this...