Reorienting critical realism: A system-wide perspective on the capitalist economy

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-519

  Brown, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Dialectics; Methodology; Realism; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549054773     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780701718789     Document Type: Article

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