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A Theory of Forced Labour MigrationThe Gelatinous Neoclassical Paradigm

A Theory of Forced Labour Migration: The Gelatinous Neoclassical Paradigm [In this chapter, I will analyse commuting from the West Bank to Israel using the formal guidelines of the neoclassical paradigm. In conformity with the casuistry of mainstream social science, I introduce the difference between subsistence and the average market wage and mathematically model forced migration only to prove the obvious and the inadequacy of vacuous formalism. The logicism of the neoclassical model, the independence of mathematical suppositions from the material world, undermines any constructive role mathematics may play in investigating real processes, even when we twist the data. The very concept ‘forcing people to migrate’ annuls choice. Nonetheless, the self-evident fact that people migrate to obtain the basic survival bundle is borne out by the Israeli data. Still, the question arises why Israel destroys the basis of Palestinian subsistence. The formal model together with the macro data obscures the subject and the real motive of the migration phenomenon, or altogether, the theory of labour migration. Formalism in economics is not innocent and it serves a blatant ideological bent, which is to eliminate history and the historical subject.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theory of Forced Labour MigrationThe Gelatinous Neoclassical Paradigm

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
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978-981-15-3199-6
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73 –97
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10.1007/978-981-15-3200-9_4
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[In this chapter, I will analyse commuting from the West Bank to Israel using the formal guidelines of the neoclassical paradigm. In conformity with the casuistry of mainstream social science, I introduce the difference between subsistence and the average market wage and mathematically model forced migration only to prove the obvious and the inadequacy of vacuous formalism. The logicism of the neoclassical model, the independence of mathematical suppositions from the material world, undermines any constructive role mathematics may play in investigating real processes, even when we twist the data. The very concept ‘forcing people to migrate’ annuls choice. Nonetheless, the self-evident fact that people migrate to obtain the basic survival bundle is borne out by the Israeli data. Still, the question arises why Israel destroys the basis of Palestinian subsistence. The formal model together with the macro data obscures the subject and the real motive of the migration phenomenon, or altogether, the theory of labour migration. Formalism in economics is not innocent and it serves a blatant ideological bent, which is to eliminate history and the historical subject.]

Published: Jun 3, 2020

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