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Rational Choice Marxism

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Terrell Carver

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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  2. Paul Thomas

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Terrell Carver, Paul Thomas
    Pages 1-10

  3. What is Analytical Marxism?

    • Erik Olin Wright
    Pages 11-30

  4. Rational Choice Marxism

    • Alan Carling
    Pages 31-78

  5. Rational Choice Marxism: Is the Game Worth the Candle?

    • Ellen Meiksins Wood
    Pages 79-135

  6. Marxism without Micro-Foundations

    • Michael Burawoy
    Pages 136-166

  7. Class, Production and Politics: A Reply to Burawoy

    • Adam Przeworski
    Pages 167-190

  8. Mythological Individualism — The Metaphysical Foundation of Analytical Marxism

    • Michael Burawoy
    Pages 191-199

  9. Social Democracy and Rational Choice Marxism

    • Desmond King, Mark Wickham-Jones
    Pages 200-230

  10. Marx and Methodological Individualism

    • Mark E. Warren
    Pages 231-257

  11. Philosophical Foundations of Analytical Marxism

    • Graeme Kirkpatrick
    Pages 258-274

  12. The Limits of Rational Choice Theory

    • Michael Goldfield, Alan Gilbert
    Pages 275-300

  13. Rational Choice Marxism and Postmodern Feminism: Towards a More Meaningful Incomprehension

    • Alan Carling
    Pages 301-323

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 324-338
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To begin with, rational choice Marxism, promised to construct historical explanations and social theories with clarity and rigour. Subsequently, it took a `political turn' in addressing issues of class and production, and the prospects for electoral socialism. This anthology commences with the founding classics - Erik Olin Wright's `What is Analytical Marxism?' and Alan Carling's spirited challenge to the Marxist establishment - which are answered with critical responses detailed by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Michael Burawoy in previously uncollected debates. Also included are further debates charting the historical progression of rational choice Marxism. The editors demonstrate that the clarity and rigour originally promised by the rational choice Marxists was never in fact achieved, but that rational choice Marxism has considerably enhanced the theoretical treatment of class and production in a world of commodification and difference.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Terrell Carver

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Paul Thomas

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