Beyond western economics remembering other economic cultures /

• Main Author: Schroyer, Trent.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics > History.; Culture > History.; Social policy > History.; Culture.; Economics.; Social policy.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Comparative. > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Western certitudes about freedom and economics; Part I: Critical histories of western economics; 1 Origins of idealization of the self-regulating market; 2 Substantive economics and the abstractions of economism; 3 Idealizations of utopian capitalism; Part II: Critical traditionalist cultural visions; 4 Illich's genealogy of modern certitudes; 5 Gandhi's truth testing and India today; Part III: Alternative economies; 6 Foundations of economic cultures; 7 Substantive economic cultures; 8 Social learning for people's economies.