Political economy : General problems / Vol. 1,
Oskar Lange, translated from Polish by A. H. Walker.
- Oxford, London, New York, Paris : Pergamon Press, 1963. Warszawa : PWN — Polish Scientific Publishers, 1963.
- xiv, 355 pages ; 23 cm
Includes subject and name indices.
Chapter one. The subject matter of political economy. Elementary concepts -- Chapter two. Modes of production and social formations. The materialist interpretation of history -- Chapter three. Economic laws -- Chapter four. The method of political economy -- Chapter five. The principle of economic rationality. Political economy and praxiology -- Chapter six. The subjectivist and the historical trend in political economy -- Chapter seven. The social conditioning and the social role of economic science.
"This volume deals with the general problems of political economy — its subject matter, the connection between political economy and the materialist interpretation of history, economic laws, the method employed by political economy, the relation of political economy to praxiology, the problem of social conditioning and the social function of economic knowledge. Non-Marxist trends in political economy are also briefly discussed. In this way the volume is a self-sufficient whole dealing with the general bases of the science of political economy." -- From the foreword to the first Polish edition.