THE PECULIAR MARRIAGE OF MARXIAN AND NEOCLASSICAL LABOR ECONOMICS

In: Review of radical political economics, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 22-30

Abstract

THE AUTHORS ANALYZE SCHOLARSHIP BY MICHAEL REICH AND JAMES REBITZER THAT ATTEMPTS TO REPOSITION RADICAL ECONOMICS IN GENERAL AND RADICAL LABOR ECONOMICS IN PARTICULAR. REICH'S ONGOING HISTORY OF RADICAL ECONOMICS SUBSUMES THE ENTIRE RADICAL OPUS TO THE WORK CONCERNED WITH THE LABOR/LABOR POWER DISTINCTION AND ISSUES OF POWER IN THE WORKPLACE. REBITZER MAKES NO CLAIMS FOR RADICAL ECONOMICS AS A WHOLE, BUT THE STORY HE TELLS ABOUT RADICAL LABOR ECONOMICS IS SIMILAR TO REICH'S. BOTH AUTHORS FIND A GROWING CONVERGENCE BETWEEN RADICALS AND LIBERAL NEOCLASSICALS -- A CONVERGENCE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PARADIGMATIC SHIFT FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY.