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Theory and History in Marxian Economics

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The Future of Economic History

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Imagine that you are an aspiring economist, in search of “good” economic theory. An academic economist tells you to look at the top-rated economic journals, where rigorous exercises in logic abound. After a short shift in the library, you concede that the work appears rigorous enough, at least as far as technique is concerned. But (forever naive) you question whether, beneath the obvious technical sophistication, the stuff that fills the journals is all that relevant to the real world.

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    Alexander J. Field

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Lazonick, W. (1987). Theory and History in Marxian Economics. In: Field, A.J. (eds) The Future of Economic History. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3269-2_6

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