Beyond Western Economics

Remembering Other Economic Cultures
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-77697-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in case studies of globalization and world events.

Trent Schroyer provides a moral and cultural interpretation of modernity and scientism, highlighting their political and economic consequences – but the book’s main purpose is not to criticize. The author moves beyond this to offer alternative "economic cultures," again combining abstract theoretical analysis with concrete case studies of alternative economic formations from local self-sufficiency movements to cooperatives and other anti-capitalist institutional experiments.

These case studies exhibit an impressive range of variation, from first world to third world, from reformist to utopian transformative. Finally, Schroyer links the project to the global justice movement that opposes corporate globalization and eventually links participatory economics and democratic politics to a new image of science as "participatory social learning."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schroyer, Trent

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Western Certitudes about Economic Freedom Part 1: Critical Histories of Western Economics 1. Idealization of the Self Regulating Market 2. Substantive Economics and the Abstractions of Economism 3. Idealizations of Utopian Capitalism Part 2: Critical Traditionalist Cultural Visions 4. Illich's Genealogy of Modern Certitudes 5. Gandhi’s Truth Testing and India Today Part 3: Alternative Economies 6. Foundations of Economic Cultures 7. Substantive Economic Cultures Chapter 8. Social Learning for People’s Economies

Über Autor(innen)

Trent Schroyer is Professor of Sociology-Philosophy in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College. His book, The Critique of Domination has been nominated for a US National Book Award.