Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Origins of Modern Sociology - Classical Political Economy - Alienated Labour and the Critique of Political Economy - Value, Class and the Theory of Society - Political Economy and its Sociological Critics - The Marginalist Revolution in Economics - The Irrationality of Marginalist Economics - From Marginalism to Modern Sociology - Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
Synopsis
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology offers an original interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy as the basis of a critique of modern economics and sociology. The core of the book is an account of Marx's theory of alienated labour as the basis of Marx's work as a whole. The critical implications of this theory are developed through an analysis of the historical development of liberal social theory from political economy to the modern disciplines of economics and sociology.