Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential

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SUNY Press, 3. sij 2008. - Broj stranica: 240
Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and cultures? Seeking to answer these questions, Deep History offers a fresh theory of social evolution while thinking grandly about the human condition. With his theory based in the Marxian and historical materialist tradition, David Laibman starts from scratch and utilizes some of the best insights in economics and economic history, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and philosophy to construct a new framework for understanding the most general aspects of social evolution. He then applies this framework to modern era capitalist societies and, projecting it on a postcapitalist or socialist future, captures an understanding of the core momentum that has characterized our lived experience, a momentum considerate of diversity, contingency, and the role of human consciousness over time.
 

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AGENCY CAUSALITY AND HISTORY
2
TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM The PFPR Model and Alternatives
37
STRUCTURE LOGIC STADIALITY
65
THE ELUSIVE ANATOMY OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY
66
THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM Growth and Crisis
90
A STADIAL MODEL OF THE CAPITALIST ERA
117
AN ENVISIONED FUTURE
143
SOCIALISM Beyond Capital Beyond Class
144
THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE AND THE THEORY OF FULL COMMUNISM
172
BIBLIOGRAPHY
199
INDEX
211
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David Laibman is Professor of Economics at Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, The City University of New York. He is the editor of the journal Science & Society and the author of Value, Technical Change, and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory.

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