Abstract liberal theory cannot substitute for confronting economic realities

Evidence

But such generalizations cannot substitute for direct confrontation with the thorny and somewhat disreputable facts of economic life. In the reality of industrial society, can the school environment promote either human development or social equality? — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 342

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberalism is not actually impartial in theory or practice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 357; Economic theory and actual market practice cannot be radically separated in derivatives — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 1182; The economic level cannot by itself determine other social levels (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Moral and cultural reform cannot proceed detached from economic reform #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616
• Political beliefs cannot be reduced to material interests or formal schemes #corroborates (0.80) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 24
• Liberalism is not actually impartial in theory or practice #complicates (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 357
• The economic level cannot by itself determine other social levels #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberalism is a caricature of liberalism reduced to a theory of economic organization #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2121
• Crises of liberalism are not deducible from crises of capitalism. #qualifies (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 492
• Economic theory and actual market practice cannot be radically separated in derivatives #exemplifies (0.72) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1182
• Liberal thought assumes the world should conform to liberal premises #complicates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 497
• Liberalism’s crises are never traced back to the liberal subject itself #complicates (0.70)