The union members are largely 'economistic' (focused on wages) and not politically active. From Wordnik.com. [Venezuela Analysis] Reference
One view, which we call the "economistic" position, maintains that the decline in marriage has been harmful for African Americans and that the root cause of the decline has been a lack of economic opportunities for Black men. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
'economistic' or absolute in scientific, philosophic anti-capitalism, that is, in socialism. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases] Reference
An excellent way to identify economistic fundamentalists. From Wordnik.com. [The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The first mistake was to look at culture in primarily economistic terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultural Policy Colonization of the West, or Fattening Frogs for Snakes] Reference
All the economistic mindset did was enrich the haves at the expense of the have-nots. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultural Policy Colonization of the West, or Fattening Frogs for Snakes] Reference
It is conservative and economistic to talk about foreign policy as trade, trade, trade. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
But Kling's is interesting because it is an elegant and economistic re-casting Friedman's political statement. From Wordnik.com. [What is Real Freedom?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, comes on as anything but super-confident in the grand old economistic style. From Wordnik.com. [Past Their Prime (Rate)] Reference
The economistic brand of workerism fails to realize that working class leadership must be exerted in all fields of struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Contents:] Reference
In answer to the economistic elevation of things over people and capital over labor, it advances the personalist principle and the primacy of labor. From Wordnik.com. [Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching] Reference
See LE Section 13 The economistic view, whether from socialists or capitalists, involves the divorce of the moral and ethical realms from the economic. From Wordnik.com. [Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching] Reference
All are against pollution but there is no consensus on what to do about it and no real awareness of, or support for such economistic solutions as tradable permits. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Literacy of Teenagers - by Steven Kyle] Reference
The result of this subordination is the divorce of capital and labor, which from the economistic perspective became mere "impersonal forces" and "production factors.". From Wordnik.com. [Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching] Reference
Both lines of argument in favor of Intellectual Protectionism are bogus, but the economistic arguments are the ones I focus on in the Libertarians for Protectionism posts. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarians for Protectionism, Appendix B: contrarium sequitur edition] Reference
It might well be that those of us at smaller liberal arts colleges who of necessity spend more time with folks in other disciplines are less likely to be overly economistic. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists] Reference
The entire course is designed as a long argument against analyses of social movements by economistic Marxism or in the case of Japan, koza-ha Marxists and modernization theory. From Wordnik.com. [井の中の蛙 » Oe and Millenarian Movements » Print] Reference
However, for some of my colleagues here, engaging in economistic behavior is a response to what they would see, as Pete L does, as the "nonsense" of other social sciences and the humanities. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists] Reference
If her wonderful capacity to give love, help, solace, warmth, solidarity has been replaced by the economistic and trade-union mentality of the 'profession', by this typical masculine concern?. From Wordnik.com. [The new, practicing Catholic, Kate Millet] Reference
It can make even a cold-blooded economistic capitalist squeamish to think about rich people paying poor ones for body parts not to mention the plot lines of several action-packed horror movies and novels. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense of Corporate Taxes] Reference
Most damagingly they meekly accepted the economistic logics that drove the auditing of productivity and were naive enough to believe that the introduction of fees would supplement, not replace, state funding. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Downes: Deinstitutionalizing Education] Reference
And I think that pretty much all economistic arguments in favor of copyright restrictions follow the same sort of bogus protectionistic logic that is followed by these economistic arguments for patent monopolies. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarians for Protectionism, Appendix B: contrarium sequitur edition] Reference
Message: it's the whole economistic agenda that's unrealistic. From Wordnik.com. [Tyee - Home] Reference
Undoubtedly, the economistic argument's heyday came in 1965 with the release of. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
As a result of this backlash, the economistic argument quickly vanished from the political discourse. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
And no wonder having studied economics at Birkbeck you come up with such a narrow economistic appreciation of the value of a degree. From Wordnik.com. [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The mixing of the two led to the demise of the liberal ideology, in favor of the economistic ideas, related to the market laws and capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Greek News] Reference
The economistic position is not so much the ideology of a particular group as it is a certain coherent perspective on African American family structure. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
"For readers of the column, maybe they will read a little more carefully when I'm being economistic, or maybe have a little more tolerance when I'm being boring.". From Wordnik.com. [Nevada Thunder] Reference
To the economistic scholar, fatherlessness is a sign and source of social disintegration and it engenders many of the other ills associated with poor, Black communities. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
Ghose was expectedly hostile to the economistic aspects in Marx, but may have agreed with the first of the Theses on Feuerbach had he had access to it at that point of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
The revisionists do, however, agree with the economistic scholars on one point: If there are any problems facing the Black family, they stem from outside structures and forces, especially racism and the absence of good jobs. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
The major flaw of the economistic position (also found in revisionism) is that, insofar as family problems are acknowledged by the analyst, they are immediately reconceptualized and subsumed into wider problems of social, political, and economic structure. From Wordnik.com. [My Weblog] Reference
Also, I get tired of a ‘workerist’ attitude which reeks of the Protestant ethic and constantly tries to downplay any issues which can’t be crammed into an economistic model. From Wordnik.com. [Women and the Invisible Fist] Reference
This economistic workerism is not all wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Contents:] Reference
Adolph Reed, a Trotskyist in his youth who nowadays speaks from an economistic perspective (class trumps race), was assigned to write about ". From Wordnik.com. [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference
1993, are attempts to provide ultraradical perspectives that overcome the limitations of an economistic Marxist tradition that privileges the economic sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baudrillard] Reference
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