Critical Political Economy: Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism

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Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 352
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation and empowerment, they will have to radically change their conception about what it means for a citizen to act rationally in a complex society.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 10
Copyright......Page 11
Dedication......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Foreword......Page 19
1 Introduction......Page 26
Part I: Uncritical complexity......Page 46
2 Uncritical atoms: The limits of standard economics......Page 48
3 Uncritical mass: The limits of complexity economics......Page 81
4 The use of uncritical knowledge insociety......Page 107
Part II: Bottom-up Critical TheoryThe logic of self-criticizing complexity......Page 128
5 The use of critical knowledge aboutsociety......Page 130
6 Bottom-up Critical Theory: What does economics describe?......Page 164
7 A self-criticizing economic system......Page 187
Part III: Toward a critical mainstream?......Page 220
8 A formal approach to criticallyrational action......Page 222
Part IV: Critical Political Economy: The logic of ‘‘post-orthodox’’ pluralism......Page 254
9 The use of economics in a complexeconomy......Page 256
10 Free-economy economics......Page 281
11 Post-orthodox pluralism in economics......Page 300
Notes......Page 318
Bibliography......Page 320
Index......Page 331

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