Imagination and Politics
In: Disraeli and Victorian Conservatism, S. 1-31
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In: Disraeli and Victorian Conservatism, S. 1-31
In: History of European ideas, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 103-105
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: American Slavic and East European Review, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 175
In: Orthodoxie, Orient und Europa Band 2
In: Critical times: interventions in global critical theory, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 262-264
ISSN: 2641-0478
To apply the term 'magical' to modern economic thought is to suggest that there remains within it an unassimilated and unexamined residue of irrational thought. Further, it is to hold that this remnant persists despite the discipline's century long attempt to "submit the abstract laws of theoretical political economy or 'pure' economics to experimental and quantitative verification, and thus to the extent possible to constitute pure economy as a science in the narrow sense of the term" (Frisch, 1926: 1, our translation). The specific instance of irrationality to which we refer is perfectly visible but systematically overlooked because it exists in economics' most basic assumptions: not only the assumptions about the causal mechanisms that determine human action, but even more in what is increasingly acknowledged to be the theoretical Achilles heel of economics, the concept of the market itself.
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In: Finance and society, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 34-37
ISSN: 2059-5999
To apply the term 'magical' to modern economic thought is to suggest that there remains within it an unassimilated and unexamined residue of irrational thought. Further, it is to hold that this remnant persists despite the discipline's century long attempt to "submit the abstract laws of theoretical political economy or 'pure' economics to experimental and quantitative verification, and thus to the extent possible to constitute pure economy as a science in the narrow sense of the term" (Frisch, 1926: 1, our translation). The specific instance of irrationality to which we refer is perfectly visible but systematically overlooked because it exists in economics' most basic assumptions: not only the assumptions about the causal mechanisms that determine human action, but even more in what is increasingly acknowledged to be the theoretical Achilles heel of economics, the concept of the market itself. It is here that the term 'magical' — which allowed us to see the irrationality that is reproduced rather than eliminated by its formal apparatus — may, if we are not careful, prevent us from seeing how the magical thinking evident in 'mainstream' economic theory and practice is not simply 'error' or a pathology of thought, but is historically determined in ways that are so profoundly embedded in economic theory that they have been rendered remarkably resistant to analysis.
In: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Band 57, Heft 57, S. 153-169
ISSN: 1741-0797
In: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Heft 57, S. 153-169
ISSN: 1362-6620
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 122
ISSN: 0032-3179
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 372