Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy

Capital and Class

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-262

  Fleetwood, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aetiology; critical realism; law; ontology; regularity law; Tendency; tendential law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865304251     PISSN: 03098168     EISSN: 20410980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309816812437921     Document Type: Article

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