Methodologies of Political Economy

Readings

•  Robert Heilbroner, “The Materialist Interpretation of History,” in Marxism: For and Against, p. 61-92.
•  Ellen Meiskins Wood, “The Separation of the ‘Economic’ and the ‘Political’ in Capitalism” (Chapter 1) Democracy Against Capitalism (Verso, 2016), p. 26-51.
•  Karl Marx, “Preface,” A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol- economy/preface.htm
•  Raymond Williams, “Materialism,” in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Revised Edition), p. 197-201  (Podcast/Video), David Harvey, “Marx’s Historical Materialism,” David Harvey’s
• Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, https://open.spotify.com/episode/6NOB9TR8vEJHsmGk2U3inz (Spotify), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeibJ0S5IrM (Youtube), running time 29:22
•  Wayne Booth et al, “Part II: Asking Questions, Finding Answers,” p. 29-67 (includes chapter 3 “From Topics to Questions,” and Chapter 4 “From Questions to a Problem”)
•  Michael Watts, “The Holy Grail: In Pursuit of the Dissertation Proposal” (Berkeley Institute of International Studies, 2001), https://dusk.geo.orst.edu/prosem/PDFs/InPursuitofPhD.pdf
•  William Cronon’s “Learning to Do Historical Research: A Primer for Environmental Historians and Others” website at https://www.williamcronon.net/researching/questions.htm (*please spend some
•  Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory,” in Critical Theory: Selected Essays (Continuum, 2002) p. 188-243.
•  Katherine McKittrick, “The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound,” in Dear Science and Other Stories (Duke University Press, 2021), p. 35-57.