1st Edition

Economics as Rhetoric The Thought of Bernard Maris

By Anne Isla Copyright 2024
292 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He remains one of the most original intellectuals of contemporary France, but despite being a uniquely original heterodox thinker, his international reputation has been compromised by the fact that his writings are inaccessible to non-French speakers. This book remedies... Read more

Introduction: Bernard Maris, the myth of scientific economics

1. Choosing heterodoxy 

2. Expert discourse, scholarly discourse: a discipline subjected to power (the myth of well-being)

3. A post-Keynesian-Marxian-Freudian conventionalist 

4. The characteristics of capitalism/the future of capitalism 

5. Concluding chapter: beyond capitalism, for humanistic economics.

Biography

Anne Isla is Senior Associate Professor of Economics and Researcher at LEREPS (Laboratory of Study and Research on Economics, Policies, and Social Systems), Toulouse University, France.

"This book is an absolute must-read for those who want to know more about the rich oeuvre of one of the most original, influential and critical thinkers in heterodox economics in contemporary France. Anne Isla has done an outstanding job in providing a complete overview of his intellectual trajectory and critical writings." - Ron Boschma, current holder of the Bernard Maris UNESCO Chair