 | Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Politics & International Relations; Economics; Political Philosophy; Political Economy; History of Economic Thought; Marxism & Communism; This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense. An economics-enriched political economy is, above all, empowering: working people in general can calculate, build models, think theoretically, and contribute to a human-worthy future, rather than leaving all this to their "betters." David Laibman is Professor of Economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. |
