David Levine

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Recent Publications

Books

• Object Relations, Work and the Self (Routledge, 2010)
• Politics without Reason: The Perfect World and the Liberal Ideal (New York: Palgrave, 2008)
• Welfare, Right and the State: A Framework for Thinking (Routledge: 2008)
• Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order, with S. Abu Rizvi (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• Attack on Government: Fear, Distrust, and Hatred in Public Life (Pitchstone Press, 2004)
• The Living Dead and the End of Hope (Broken Tree Press, 2003)
• Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market, and the State (Routledge, 2001)
• Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and Choosing (Routledge, 1998)
• Self-Seeking and the Pursuit of Justice (Ashgate Publishers, 1997)
• Wealth and Freedom: An Introduction to Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Articles

• "The Corrupt Organization," Human Relations 58,6 (2005)
• "Reproduction and Transformation in the Theory of the Market: Observations on Josef Steindl’s Theory of Capitalist Dynamics" in T. Mott and N. Shapiro (editors) Rethinking Capitalist Development: Essays on the Economics of Josef Steindl (London: Routledge, 2004).
• "Poverty, Capabilities, and Freedom," Review of Political Economy 16:1 (January 2004)
• "The Ideal of Diversity in Organizations," American Review of Public Administration 33:3  (September 2003)
• "Hate in Groups and the Struggle for Individual Identity," Organizational and Group Dynamics," 3:2 (2003)
• "On Learning a Skill," Socio-Analysis 4:2 (December 2002)
• "Thinking about Doing: On Learning from Experience and the Flight from Thinking," Human Relations 55:10 (October 2002)
• "Tolerating Difference and Coping with the Infidel," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 7:1 (Spring 2002)
• “Political Economy and the Idea of Development,” Review of Political Economy 13:4 (2001)
• “The Fantasy of Inevitability in Organizations,” Human Relations 54:10 (October 2001)
• “Know No Limits: The Destruction of Self-Knowledge in Organizations,” 3:2  Psychoanalytic Studies 3:2 (June 2001)
• "The Attachment of Greed to Self-Interest," Psychoanalytic Studies, 2:2 (June 2000)
• "Closed Systems, Social Symptoms, and Social Change," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 5:1 (Spring 2000.
• "Creativity and Change," The American Behavioral Scientist 43:2 (October 1999)
• "Identity, the Group, and the Social Construction of Reality," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 4:1 (Spring 1999)
• "The Capacity for Ethical Conduct" Psychoanalytic Studies 1:1 (March 1999)
• "Hatred of Government" Administrative Theory and Praxis 20:3 (Fall 1998)
• "Demanding Justice," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (Spring, 1998)

Articles that cannot be accessed through this page are available on request.  Send e-mail to  dlevine@du.edu.

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