Philosophical Conversations Public Opinion philosophy.com Junk for code
hegel
"When philosophy paints its grey in grey then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk." -- G.W.F. Hegel, 'Preface', Philosophy of Right.
RECENT ENTRIES
SEARCH
ARCHIVES
Library
Links - weblogs
Links - Political Rationalities
Links - Resources: Philosophy
Public Discussion
Resources
Cafe Philosophy
Philosophy Centres
Links - Resources: Other
Links - Web Connections
Other
www.thought-factory.net
'Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainity and agitation distinquish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones ... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.' Marx

a note on economics « Previous | |Next »
December 17, 2007

Neoclassical economics dominates political life and public policy. The school of law and economics tries to hide its own conservative norms and larger political agenda behind a mask of positivism and so-called objectivity. It presupposes the sovereign, autonomous, individual, white male agent and dichotomizes the human agent into a "separatist" self (based on the self-interested, profit-maximizing, autonomous individual in the market) and a "soluble" self (who is completely altruistic, empathetic, selfless, and connected with the family). Its politics is one of the rolling back of social welfare programs in the name of "efficiency" (a key goal of neoclassical economics) and is inherently political as it involves the withering away of the welfare state.

Despite these kinds of philosophical critiques neo-classical economics remains hegemonic.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 08:52 PM | | Comments (0)
Comments
 
Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Name:
Email Address:
URL:
Remember personal info?
Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)