The Political Economy and Etiology of Psychopathology: An Essay

Political economy is the historical foundation of modern social science, arguably the first discipline to wrest its intellectual independence from the embrace of philosophy. Classical political economy -- Ferguson, Smith, Mill, Ricardo, and Malthus -- was the first effort to achieve a specifically s...

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Published in:Socialism and democracy 2012-03, Vol.26 (1), p.36-57
Main Author: Conway, J. F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Commodities
Competition
Economic Development
Economic relations
Employment
Etiology
Independence
Injunctions
Intellectuals
International relations
Labor market
Labor Theory of Value
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Markets
Neoliberalism
Political Economy
Psychopathology
Social Development
Social Sciences
Social Structure
Supply & demand
Terrorism
Value (Economics)
Values
Wages & salaries
Workers
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Summary:Political economy is the historical foundation of modern social science, arguably the first discipline to wrest its intellectual independence from the embrace of philosophy. Classical political economy -- Ferguson, Smith, Mill, Ricardo, and Malthus -- was the first effort to achieve a specifically scientific and materialist understanding of the emerging social structure in the context of the bourgeois and industrial revolutions. Certainly classical political economy failed to provide a consistently thoroughgoing materialist analysis of these great transformations, but its key concepts always pulled us back to the material world. Most importantly the labour theory of value, the concepts of use and exchange value, the proposed laws of population growth and decline, and the positing of the capitalist market as the engine of economic and therefore social development, relentlessly dragged us down from idealist abstractions to concrete materialist considerations. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0885-4300
1745-2635
DOI:10.1080/08854300.2011.645662