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The Breakdown of Capitalism: A History of the Idea in Western Marxism, 1883-1983 (Routledge Library Editions: The History of Economic Thought) - Hardcover

Book 10 of 13: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Economic Thought

Hansen, F. R.

 
9781138229938: The Breakdown of Capitalism: A History of the Idea in Western Marxism, 1883-1983 (Routledge Library Editions: The History of Economic Thought)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138229938 ISBN 13: 9781138229938
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This comprehensive and lucid study, first published in 1985, reconstructs the history of Western Marxist theories of the breakdown of capitalism. It provides a critical reading of theories of breakdown, with their conflicting interpretations of a single text, their invulnerability to empirical defeat, and their retreat from class analysis, as events in the history of ideas. This study traces the sources of theoretical conflict in a series of historical and epistemological issues that shift over time and generate new conditions for speculations concerning the fate of the system. In seeking to understand that durability of the concept of breakdown, the author raises important questions about the social conditions and consequences of theoretical work and the status of critical thought in society. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.

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F. R. Hansen

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138229938
ISBN 13 
9781138229938
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
182