E. P. Thompson argues that Marx's ambition of providing a scientific theory of capitalism is inherently defective, and that this goal contributes to the implicit idealism which Thompson identifies in Althusser's Marxism. This article provides a defense of the scientific standing of Capital...

This volume represents a contribution to the philosophy of economics with a distinctive point of view -- the contributors have selected particular areas of economics and have probed these areas for the philosophical and methodological issues that they raise. The primary essays are written by...