I have just returned from a summer internship in Uganda, where I was working with the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity which is based at Notre Dame. Apart from learning about the day to day work of a development organization, I realized first hand the importance of Marxian contributions to development [...]
Archive for July 21st, 2009
A Poverty of Ideas
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“Adam’s Fallacy and the Great Recession”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, financial crisis, Marxian on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the Monthly Review Zine, John Bellamy Foster writes about “Adam’s Fallacy,” a term coined by radical economist Duncan Foley, and how it relates to the current crisis. The fallacy, as Foley writes, is
The idea that it is possible to separate an economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is guided by [...]
