Abstract
The conventional theory of economic integration largely neglects issues of social and economic class. In part such neglect is understandable in terms of the role of much economic theory in mystifying or obscuring the real power relations in capitalist society. This is not necessarily a conscious conspiracy by professional intellectuals. But concentration on economic techniques of analysis in social and political vacuum itself helps to obscure theoretical insight into social class and political power.
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E. B. Haas, The Uniting of Europe 2nd edn, (Stanford University Press, 1968) p. xxxiii.
Leon Lindberg, The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration (Stanford University Press, 1963) p. 94.
R. J. Harrison, Europe in Question (Allen & Unwin, 1974 ) p. 80.
W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth (Oxford University Press).
Raymond Aron, La Lutte des Classes (Gallimard, 1964);
S. M. Lipset, Political Man (1959).
See, further, Lucio Colletti, Ideologia e Societa (Laterza, 1975) pp. 61–5.
see Paul Streeten, Economic Integration 2nd edn, (Sytthoff, 1964).
See, further, E. P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory, (Merlin Press, 1978 )
Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism (New Left Books, 1978) p. 16 ff.
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Holland, S. (1980). Class and Elites. In: Uncommon Market. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16304-5_5
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