Political Response to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the State and the Case of the New Deal

1980/03/01 by Theda Skocpol · 456 citations
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Capitalism #Capitalist state #Economic system #Economics #Epistemology #Law #Marxist philosophy #Mathematics #Neoclassical economics #Philosophy #Political Economy and Marxism #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Positive economics #Sociology #State (computer science)

paper · doi:10.1177/003232928001000202

published in Politics & Society 10(2), 155-201 (SAGE Publishing)

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