Teaching of political economy

By:

"Smirnov, A D ed."

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Moscow; Progress Pub.; 1984Description: 333pSubject(s):

Economics

DDC classification:

330.1 TEA

Summary: This critique of non-Marxian views and ideas in the teaching of economics in the West has been written by a group of professors and teachers at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics and other Moscow colleges. The critique is not a history of economic theory, nor an exposition in detail, or as a whole, of the views of the economists whose work is considered. Attention has been paid mainly to contemporary ideas, which are treated mainly on the logical rather than the historical plane, The structure of the book has been dictated by the nature of the course of political economy in the higher schools of the USSR, and Western economic views are examined in line with the themes of the Soviet syllabus. It is therefore not so much designed for the general reader as for the student of economics and anyone following a course in Marxist political economy. Allowance has been made for the fact that the views and ideas of individual economists and economic schools include related ideas on a number of problems of political economy. Keynes' theory of 'full employment', for example, is closely bound up with the theory of reproduction and his ideas on money, credit, and finance; certain general features of his theory are consequently dealt with in diffe rent chapters of our book. Today the ideological battle of labour and capital, and of the two world social systems of socialism and capitalism has become very acute, which makes it particularly important to make a critical analysis of non-Marxian economic views both when teaching politic al economy and other economic disciplines, especially the econo my of socialism, and in research. The point is that there is a great gap and difference between the ideas developed in Western economic journals and the treatment they are accorded in the textbooks comm only used in university and college courses. It must also be noted that the writers of economics textbooks vary their ideas, adapting them to the new conditions evoked by the deepening general crisis of capital.

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This critique of non-Marxian views and ideas in the teaching of economics in the West has been written by a group of professors and teachers at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics and other Moscow colleges. The critique is not a history of economic theory, nor an exposition in detail, or as a whole, of the views of the economists whose work is considered. Attention has been paid mainly to contemporary ideas, which are treated mainly on the logical rather than the historical plane,

The structure of the book has been dictated by the nature of the course of political economy in the higher schools of the USSR, and Western economic views are examined in line with the themes of the Soviet syllabus. It is therefore not so much designed for the general reader as for the student of economics and anyone following a course in Marxist political economy.

Allowance has been made for the fact that the views and ideas of individual economists and economic schools include related ideas on a number of problems of political economy. Keynes' theory of 'full employment', for example, is closely bound up with the theory of reproduction and his ideas on money, credit, and finance; certain general features of his theory are consequently dealt with in diffe rent chapters of our book.

Today the ideological battle of labour and capital, and of the two world social systems of socialism and capitalism has become very acute, which makes it particularly important to make a critical analysis of non-Marxian economic views both when teaching politic al economy and other economic disciplines, especially the econo my of socialism, and in research. The point is that there is a great gap and difference between the ideas developed in Western economic journals and the treatment they are accorded in the textbooks comm only used in university and college courses. It must also be noted that the writers of economics textbooks vary their ideas, adapting them to the new conditions evoked by the deepening general crisis of capital.

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