1st Edition

Beyond Western Economics Remembering Other Economic Cultures

By Trent Schroyer Copyright 2009
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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. Trent Schroyer provides a moral and cultural... Read more

Introduction: Western Certitudes about Economic Freedom  Part One: Critical Histories of Western Economics  1. Idealization of the Self-regulating Market  2. Substantive Social Economics and the Abstractions of Economism  3. Idealizations of Utopian Capitalism  Part Two: Other Cultural Visions  4. Illich's Genealogy of Modern Certitudes  5. Gandhi's Truth testing and Spiritual Solidarity  Part Three: Alternative Economies  6.  Foundations of Economic Cultures  7. Substantive Economic Cultures  8. Regenerative Economics

Biography

Trent Schroyer is Professor of Sociology-Philosophy in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College. His book, The Critique of Domination has been nominated for a US National Book Award.