The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and Its DiscontentsANU E Press, 1 жовт. 2007 р. - 316 стор. "'The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents' disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, along with their gross simplifications and sacred rules. Economics cannot provide a convincing overarching theory of government action or of social action more generally. Furthermore, mainstream economics fails to get to grips with the economic system as it actually operates. It advocates a more overtly experimental, eclectic and pragmatic approach to policy development which takes more seriously the complex, interdependent, evolving nature of society and the economy. Importantly, it is an outlook that recognises the pervasive influence of asymmetries of wealth, power and information on bargaining power and prospects throughout society. The book advocates a major reform of the teaching of economics"--Provided by publisher. |
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... The Distinction Between Positive and Normative Theorising, Particularly in Economics ................................................................ 181 The Questionable Status of Economics within the Human Conversation ...................
... The Distinction Between Positive and Normative Theorising, Particularly in Economics ................................................................ 181 The Questionable Status of Economics within the Human Conversation ...................
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... Normative Use of Neoclassical Economic Idealisations ................ 217 The Flawed Assumptions of Neoclassical Economic Idealisation ........ 218 The Formal Ontological Critique of Neoclassical Economics ............... 229 The ...
... Normative Use of Neoclassical Economic Idealisations ................ 217 The Flawed Assumptions of Neoclassical Economic Idealisation ........ 218 The Formal Ontological Critique of Neoclassical Economics ............... 229 The ...
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... normative theorising use much the same practical reasoning. The chapter then extends to a discussion of the social disciplines, seeing the claims of social science as being even more open to question. Chapter 7, 'What, Then, Can We Say ...
... normative theorising use much the same practical reasoning. The chapter then extends to a discussion of the social disciplines, seeing the claims of social science as being even more open to question. Chapter 7, 'What, Then, Can We Say ...
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... Normative Reflections', is a normative reflection on what has gone before. Taking something that is a good—such as economic analysis, markets, human rights, liberty or money—and turning it into an absolute is the essence of a new ...
... Normative Reflections', is a normative reflection on what has gone before. Taking something that is a good—such as economic analysis, markets, human rights, liberty or money—and turning it into an absolute is the essence of a new ...
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... normative dimension of social life get either pushed out of sight or explained away as resultants of more important, or more real factors.' 38 It is a starting point that makes it difficult for economists and economic fundamentalists to ...
... normative dimension of social life get either pushed out of sight or explained away as resultants of more important, or more real factors.' 38 It is a starting point that makes it difficult for economists and economic fundamentalists to ...
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Сторінка 123 - As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he con.
Сторінка 63 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty,...
Сторінка 43 - Language disguises thought. So much so, that from the outward form of the clothing it is impossible to infer the form of the thought beneath it, because the outward form of the clothing is not designed to reveal the form of the body, but for entirely different purposes. The tacit conventions on which the understanding of everyday language depends are enormously complicated.
Сторінка 42 - The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background...
Сторінка 86 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Сторінка 182 - In every system of morality which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs ; when of a sudden I am surprised to find that instead of the usual copulations of propositions is and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought or an ought not.
Сторінка 123 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention, v Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Сторінка 115 - The wise and virtuous man is, at all times, willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public interest of his own particular order or society.
Сторінка ix - Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
Сторінка 103 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.