02484    a2200301   450000500170000000800400001702000220005703700370007904000070011604100080012307200150013107200160014607200150016207200150017707200130019207200130020507200130021807200130023107200210024407200210026507200170028610000180030324500820032125000060040326000320040930000100044152017310045120250526161925.0250430042023GB        4           eng    a9780367222208qBB  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 125.00fBB  a01  aeng7 aKCA2thema7 aQDTS2thema7 aDSA2thema7 aKCZ2thema7 aKCA2bic7 aHPS2bic7 aDSA2bic7 aKCZ2bic7 aBUS0230002bisac7 aBUS0690002bisac7 a305.52bisac1 aRobin Maialeh10aCritical Theory and EconomicsbPhilosophical Notes on Contemporary Inequality  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20230323  a144 p  bThis book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists. Economic agents, deliberately imprisoned in their instrumental rationality as a means to survive under competitive relationships, are microscopic constituents of systemic forces which exist beyond their will. Despite the subjective rationality of such agents in terms of formally logical transitivity and consistency, aggregate market distributional mechanisms also display non-rational patterns. The crucial aspect of the dynamics of this system consists of the paralysing effect of the high level of socioeconomic inequality, which is driven by a permanent struggle for self-preservation under competitive rules; it is a reminiscence of natural, uncivilised relationships that constituted the reproduction process of the whole. These reified agents thus become instruments of their socially constructed powers on the one hand, and objects of their existential conditionality on the other. Hence, the dialectical approach adopted by the author aims to uncover the way in which structurally genetic market forces govern individual behaviour, as well as how individual behaviour shapes these structurally genetic forces, which, together, form the transcending principles of unequal distribution. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the political economy, philosophy and the methodology of the social sciences, especially those concerned with inequality issues. This book includes a preface written by Professor Martin Jay.