Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. The...

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. The...

Teaching economics differently summarises how we have taught introductory micro and macroeconomics and what we have learned from that teaching experience over the last 40 years. We explain why teaching both economic theories that celebrate and those that criticise capitalism – together in one...

The paper extends our previous class analysis of the household and family life to include children, interactions between class structures of households and enterprises, struggles over the family budget, and father’s household labor. Analysis show how the good and bad of family life are...

Gintis' criticisms of our "Theory of Transitional Conjunctures" (see page 20) are considered and the very different theoretical and political posi tions held by Gintis and ourselves are clarified. This discussion is especially rele vant since much of Marxism is concerned with political, economic...

We argue that Marx provided the basis for a far more complex class analysis of social formations than has been recognized. We find this analysis to be consistent neither with the two-class approach long prevalent in the Marxian tradition nor with recent critiques of that approach by Poulantzas,...

This paper constructs a specifically Marxian theory of economic crisis from scattered but sufficient theoretical arguments in Marx's work. This theory integrates the following conceptual elements viewed as central: capital accumulation, falling rate of profit, realization problem, the efficiency...