Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

by Clarke,David B

• ISBN13: 9780415205153
• ISBN10: 0415205158
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-05-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.

Author Biography

David B. Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
PART I Consumption	7	(64)
1 Consumption controversies	9	(17)
2 Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard)	26	(45)
PART II Consumption and the city	71	(56)
3 Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern	73	(23)
4 Seduced and repressed: collective consumption revisited	96	(31)
WITH MICHAEL G. BRADFORD
PART III The consumer society and the postmodern city	127	(69)
5 The meaning of lifestyle	129	(38)
6 Minimal utopia	167	(29)
Notes	196	(21)
Bibliography	217	(40)
Index	257
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Introduction: a brief history of the post-autistic economics movement	1	(10)
EDWARD FULLBROOK
PART I Documents	11	(34)
The French students' petition	13	(2)
The French professors' petition	15	(3)
post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 1	18	(4)
post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 3	22	(8)
Two curricula: Chicago vs PAE	30	(4)
Advice from student organizers in France and Spain	34	(2)
Opening up economics, The Cambridge 27	36	(3)
The Kansas City Proposal	39	(3)
Support the Report	42	(3)
PART II Teaching	45	(64)
A contribution on the state of economics in France and the world	47	(6)
JAMES K. GALBRAITH (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
The Franco-American neoclassical alliance	53	(2)
JOSEPH HALEVI (University of Sydney, Australia)
Plural education	55	(3)
HUGH STRETTOLA (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Realism vs axiomatics	58	(4)
JACQUES SAPIR (L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Teaching economics through controversies	62	(8)
GILLES RAVEAUD (co-founder of Autise-Economie, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France)
A good servant but a bad master	70	(2)
GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)
Three observations on a "cultural revival" in France	72	(2)
JOSEPH HALEVI (University of Sydney, Australia)
Economists have no ears	74	(3)
STEVE KEEN (University of Wester Sydney, Australia)
Economics and multinationals	77	(3)
GRAZIA IETTO-GILLIES (South Bank University, London)
A year in French economics	80	(3)
EMMANUELLE BENICOURT (co-founder of Autisme-Economie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris)
These "wonderful" US textbooks. ..	83	(3)
LE MOUVEMENT AUTISME-ÉCONOMIE
Ignoring commercial reality	86	(4)
ALAN SHIPMAN
The perils of pluralistic teaching and how to reduce them	90	(4)
PETER E. EARL (University of Queensland, Australia)
Democracy and the need for pluralism in economics	94	(3)
PETER SÖDERBAUM (Malardalen University, Sweden)
Toward a post-autistic economics education	97	(4)
SUSAN FEINER (University of Southern Maine, USA and the Hawke Institute, University of South Australia)
Steve Keen's Debunking Economics	101	(3)
GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)
Is there anything worth keeping in standard microeconomics?	104	(5)
BERNARD GUERRIEN (Universite Paris I, France)
PART III Practice and ethics	109	(112)
Autistic economics vs the environment	113	(3)
FRANK ACKERMAN (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University,USA)
Humility in economics	116	(2)
ANDRÉ ORLÉAN (Director of Research, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Real science is pluralist	118	(7)
EDWARD FULLBROOK (University of West of England,UK)
Books of oomph	125	(3)
DEIRDRE McCLOSKEY (University of Illinois at Chicago and Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam)
Back to reality	128	(4)
TONY LAWSON (Cambridge University, UK)
The relevance of controversies for practice as well as teaching	132	(3)
SHEILA C. DOW (University of Stirling, UK)
Revolt in political science	135	(5)
KURT JACOBSEN (University of Chicago,USA)
Beyond criticism	140	(3)
PAUL ORMEROD (Volterra Consulting,UK)
How did economics get into such a state?	143	(4)
GEOFFREY M. HODGSON (University of Hetfordshire,UK)
An extraordinary discipline	147	(3)
BEN FINE (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,UK)
What we learned in the twentieth century	150	(4)
FRANK ACKERMAN (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA)
Rethinking economics in twentieth-century America	154	(5)
MICHAEL A. BERNSTEIN (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Why the PAE movement needs feminism	159	(3)
JULIE A. NELSON (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA)
An International Marshall Plan	162	(1)
GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)
The war economy	163	(5)
JAMES K. GALBRAITH (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
The globalized economy	168	(4)
JEFF GATES (Shared Capitalism Institute, USA)
Some old but good ideas	172	(3)
ANNE MAYHEW (University of Tennessee,USA)
Against: a priori theory. For: descriptively adequate computational modeling	175	(5)
BRUCE EDMONDS (Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK)
An alternative framework for economics	180	(3)
JOHN NIGHTINGALE AND JASON POTTS (University of New England and University of Queensland,Australia)
The Russian defeat of economic orthodoxy	183	(6)
STEVE KEEN (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
The tight links between post-Keynesian and feminist economics	189	(4)
MARC LAVOIE (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Is the concept of economic growth autistic?	193	(6)
JEAN GADREY (University of Lille, France)
Ontology, epistemology, language and the practice of economics	199	(4)
WARREN J. SAMDELS (Michigan State University,USA)
Is the utility maximization principle necessary?	203	(5)
KATALIN MARTINAS (Department of Atomic Physics, Roland Eotvos University, Hungary)
Quo vadis behavioral finance?	208	(4)
GEORGE M. FRANKFURTER AND ELTON G. McGOUN (Louisiana State University and Bucknell University, USA)
Psychological autism, institutional autism and economics	212	(9)
JAMES G. DEVINE (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Index	221