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9780203878705

Beyond Western Economics : Remembering Other Economic Cultures

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203878705

  • ISBN10:

    0203878701

  • Copyright: 2009-05-08
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Western Certitudes about Economic Freedom
Critical Histories of Western Economics
Idealization of the Self-regulating Market
Substantive Social Economics and the Abstractions of Economism
Idealizations of Utopian Capitalism
Other Cultural Visions
Illich's Genealogy of Modern Certitudes
Gandhi's Truth testing and Spiritual Solidarity
Alternative Economies
Foundations of Economic Cultures
Substantive Economic Cultures
Regenerative Economics
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