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Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics
dc.contributor.authorMilberg, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorPietrykowski, Bruceen_US
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dc.date.issued1994en_US
dc.identifier.citationMilberg, William; Pietrykowski, Bruce (1994). "Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics." Review of Radical Political Economics 26(1): 85-109. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68900>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0486-6134en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68900
dc.description.abstractThe revolution in social thought which has taken place in anthropology, sociology, history, literature and even law has been squelched in economics by both neoclassicals and Marxists. It is the purpose of this essay to show that aspects of contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory are considerably more compatible with Marxian and neo-Marxian theory than with neoclassical thought. More important, we argue that these poststructuralist and feminist approaches, and especially their implicit theory of the relation between the individual and society, can significantly enhance Marxian economic analysis of the production process and consumer behavior by creating a richer theory of individual behavior and by expanding the Marxian conception of institutions and thus of accumulation and reproduction.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleObjectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEconomicsen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelGovernment, Politics and Lawen_US
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dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Social Sciences, University of Michigan—Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherGraduate Faculty Economics Department, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/048661349402600104en_US
dc.identifier.sourceReview of Radical Political Economicsen_US
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