Themes and issues: Rejoinder to Sheila Dow and Paul Downward
(2006)
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The continuing relevance of the communist manifesto (2005)
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A critical realist reply to Walters & Young (2005)
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In a contribution to this journal, Bernard Walters & David Young offer a brief sketch of critical realism and three objections to it. This reply starts with three points of clarification to their sketch before going on to tackle their objections. © 2... Read More about A critical realist reply to Walters & Young.
Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective (2005)
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Organization studies has recently been captured by a cultural, linguistic, poststructural or postmodern turn, the impetus for which has come from the ontological turn from a (naive) realist ontology to a socially constructed ontology. Much of the cur... Read More about Ontology in organization and management studies: A critical realist perspective.
The ontology of organisation and management studies (2004)
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Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation (2002)
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Boylan and O'Gorman have recently elaborated an interesting new perspective called causal holism, which attempts to go beyond developments in rhetoric and realism. The aim of this paper is to evaluate causal holism from the perspective of critical re... Read More about Boylan and O'Gorman's causal holism: A critical realist evaluation.
The marriage of critical realism and marxism: Happy, unhappy or on the rocks? (2002)
Book Chapter
Why neoclasical economics explains nothing at all (2002)
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Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective (2001)
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An adequate conceptualization and measurement of unemployment should express the reality of employment. Designing theoretical concepts that adequately express reality requires appropriate methodological foundations. This paper uses critical realism t... Read More about Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective.
Causal laws, functional relations and tendencies (2001)
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What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry (2001)
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This paper uses critical realism to reflect upon the issue of theory in Marx's Labour Theory of Value (LTV). Like any theory, the LTV is rooted in a mode of theorisation. Rooting the LTV in an inappropriate (deductivist) mode of theorisation encourag... Read More about What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry.
What kind of theory is Marx's labour theory of value? A critical realist inquiry (2001)
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Realism in contemporary organisation and management studies (2000)
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Clarifying Marx’s theory of money (1999)
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The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade union behaviour (1999)
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This paper identifies four criteria used by mainstream economists of trade unions to judge the adequacy of their various theories. Three of them, however, are hardly ever satisfied. The root cause of this failure is the method adopted by mainstream e... Read More about The inadequacy of mainstream theories of trade union behaviour.
Situating critical realism in economics (1997)
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Hayek III: The necessity Of social rules of conduct (1997)
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Critical realism, Marx and Hayek (1997)
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Aristotle in the 21st Century (1997)
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