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Rationality and Irrationality in Economics (Paperback)
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Rationality and Irrationality in Economics (Paperback)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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Loot Price R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
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This book is the result of a research project begun by the author
in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:
First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear
and disappear throughout history--in other words, what is their
hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to exist, or to
have existed?
Second, what are the conditions for a rational understanding of
these systems--in other words, for a fully developed comparative
economic science?
The field of investigation opened up by these two questions is
vast, touching on the foundations of social reality and on how to
understand them. The author, being a Marxist, sought the answers,
as he writes, 'not in philosophy or by philosophical means, but in
and through examining the knowledge accumulated by the sciences.'
The stages of his journey from philosophy to economics and then to
anthropology are indicated by the divisions of his book.
Godelier rejects, at the outset, any attempt to tackle the question
of rationality or irrationality of economic science and of economic
realities from the angle of an a priori idea, a speculative
definition of what is rational. Such an approach can yield only, he
feels, an ideological result. Rather, he treats the appearance and
disappearance of social and economic systems in history as being
governed by a necessity 'wholly internal to the concrete structures
of social life.
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