Spectres of Capitalism
Subtitle: A Critique of Current Intellectual Fashions
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780853459330
Subjects: Anthropology; Political economy; Political science & theory; Economics - General; Free Enterprise; Capitalism; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Postmodernism; Business & Economics / Economics / General; political science; philosophy; economics; Economic History; Social history
Description: "In this succinct theoretical text, Amin examines the changing notion of crisis in capitalism; misconceptions of the free market model; the various distortions of Marx's method; the role of culture in revolutions; the decline of the "law of value" in economics; the philosophical roots of postmodernism; how telecommunications affect ideology; and the myth of "pure economics.""--BOOK JACKET.