1st Edition
The End of Individualism and the Economy Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community
By Ann E. Davis
Copyright 2020
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years. In this paradigm the economy is seen as a machine to routinize production and improve efficiency, and the discipline of economics has come to focus on control and automation. Recent innovations in natural and social sciences,... Read more
(1) The Individual as a Key Term
(2) Property and Reification
(3) The Public/Private Divide
(4) The Shaping of the Modern Liberal State
(5) The Economics of “Autophagy”: Implications of the Economy as “Machine”
(6) Methods of Social Science
(7) “Unique Individuals”
(8) The Property Paradigm
(9) Contradictions
(10) Backlash
(11) Alternatives
(12) Conclusions
(2) Property and Reification
(3) The Public/Private Divide
(4) The Shaping of the Modern Liberal State
(5) The Economics of “Autophagy”: Implications of the Economy as “Machine”
(6) Methods of Social Science
(7) “Unique Individuals”
(8) The Property Paradigm
(9) Contradictions
(10) Backlash
(11) Alternatives
(12) Conclusions
Biography
Ann E. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College, USA, and author of Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge, 2017).
