20 What was Marx’s method, actually?
Alan Freeman
Introduction1
To the unreflecting mind, it is a simple matter to discover a ‘Marxist Macroeconomic Methodology’; we need only summarise what Marxist economists do or, even better, get an eminent Marxist to. There is, however, a catch: Marxists have no common method. There is no canonical body of work, as in neoclassical economics, which scholars of Marxist approaches to macroeconomic phenomena can refer to.
Yet, disconcertingly, the notion of a single, monotheoretic Marxism is embedded not only in mainstream but in heterodox writings. Dow (1985, p. 77) lists ten ‘Historical and Methodological Development of Schools of Thought in Macroeconomics’, summarising ‘Marxian ...
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