Edward Fullbrook

• University of the West of England, Bristol

Piketty´s best-seller book has brought distributional issues to the fore of economic debate. This is perhaps its main contribution. Piketty centers his analysis on inequality, which, under capitalism, goes hand in hand with economic growth, according to his analysis. In my critical review of the book (Beker, 2014) I asked whether reduction of inequ...

Many economists, including heterodox ones, seem unaware of the hold on and significance of the orthodox notion of economics as a ‘science’ of individual choice, the individual being conceived atomisticly. It is this idea—which pervades the economist’s mindset—that economics is the ‘science’ of the choices of isolated individuals with fixed and quan...

A collection of papers previously published in Real-world Economics Review highlighting the most serious shortcomings of current economic theory, and how they contribute to unsustainable policies

Long recognized as the twentieth century's foremost feminist thinker, Simone de Beauvoir's place in philosophy which takes as its ground the universal human subject is now a major area of debate. What is at issue currently is how much of the philosophical system previously credited to Beauvoir's lifelong partner jean‐paul sartre (see Article 21) wa...

Simone de Beauvoir (b. 9 January 1908–d. 14 April 1986) contributed to shaping the philosophical movement of French existential phenomenology. But recognition of her importance as a philosopher has come mostly since her death. The delay resulted from the convergence of two factors. One was the sexism that ruled Western intellectual culture; the oth...

Contributors: Dean Baker, Víctor A. Beker, David Colander, Edward Fullbrook, James Galbraith, Jayati Ghosh, Claude Hillinger, Merijn Knibbe, Richard Parker, Heikki Patomäki, Ann Pettifor, Alicia Puyana, Lars Pålsson Syll, Geoff Tily, Yannis Varoufakis, Robert Wade

This essay, using works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hazel Barnes, and Elizabeth Fallaize, documents the correspondence between the philosophical content of Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and Sartre's Being and Nothingness (both originally published in 1943). After reviewing the existential/phenomenological philosophical method, this paper examines the t...

In an interview with Alice Schwarzer in 1972, Simone de Beauvoir described the situation of the female intellectual when she was young: In my days there were fewer women who studied than nowadays. And, as the holder of a higher degree in philosophy, I was in a privileged position among women. In short, I made men recognize me: they were prepared to...

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those of other developed countries declined dramatically, so much so that the CIA lists 49 countries whose citize...

This paper distinguishes between epistemological naturalism, which it supports, and ontological naturalism, which it opposes. It sketches the emergence of anti-naturalist social theory among nineteenth-century African-American intellectuals and its refinement by twentieth-century feminists. These movements challenged ontological naturalism in the s...

This essay explores the ways in which Simone de Beauvoir uses Plato’s allegory of the cave as a template through which to introduce her concept of embodied consciousness into twentieth-century philosophy.

Lawson'sEconomics and Reality is a deeply informed attempt to liberate economics from its usually tacit, metaphysical presuppositions inherited from Newtonian physics and enlightenment epistemology. Lawson fears that the economics profession faces declining prosperity due to its decreasing public credibility and the increasing annexation of its tra...

Introduction. 1. The Education of a Philosopher. 2. Writing for her Life. 3. Literature and Philosophy. 4. Narrative Selves. 5. Embodiment and Intersubjectivity. 6. The Ethics of Liberation. 7. Applied Ethics I: The Second Sex. 8. Applied Ethics II: Les Belles Images, The Woman Destroyed, and Old Age. Notes. Glossary. The Works of Simone de Beauvoi...

Modern philosophy from the mid-nineteenth century on, has been particularly interested in choosing, adapting, and in some cases inventing literary forms to fit the particular philosophical subject under investigation. Simone de Beauvoir, with her explicit rejection of any formalist division between literature and philosophy, is one of the most inte...

DEBRA B. Bergoffen, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1997. - Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. London, Athlone, 1996. - Karen Vintges, Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir. Bloomi...

This paper explains some of the ideas behind the new intersubjectivist economics, offers a comparative analysis of the neoclassical and the intersubjectivist metaphysics of consumer desire, including their historical roots, and provides an extensive bibliography of the new school's key texts.

A. Introduction Einstein's revolution led philosophers and historians of science to abandon 19th-century views of scientific progress as a smooth accumulation of tested facts. Scholars came to focus instead on the processes by which one theory displaces or subsumes another. By the 1960s, obsession with competing theories became so extreme that incr...