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The delusions of economics : the misguided certainties of a hazardous science / Gilbert Rist ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Lippincott Library HB173 .R5313 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rist, Gilbert, 1938-
- Standardized Title:
- Économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Economic development.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Economics between History and Anthropology
- The trap of autonomous disciplines
- Changing the optic
- From reductionism to complexity
- 2 A Failed Scientific Ambition
- The triumph of mechanics
- Thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time
- The impotence of economic 'reason'
- 3 Homo Oeconomicus: A Dangerous Phantom
- The unlocatable individual
- How to construct society?
- The tautologies of methodological individualism
- 4 Exchange
- The right words for it
- Prescription or proscription
- Giving, receiving and giving back
- Market exchange or inverted logic
- Do the axioms of self-interest serve the interests of exchange-partners?
- 5 The Fairy Tale of Scarcity
- The two faces of scarcity
- The means of abundance
- How to conquer violence in society?
- The dual paradox
- 6 Utility and Futility
- Questions for Jeremy Bentham
- How to define utility?
- Reductionist assumptions
- 7 Equilibrium
- The Walrasian model
- An unrealistic theory
- An implausible optimum
- 8 The Growth Obsession
- What economic 'science' has chosen to exclude
- National accounting and the invention of GDP
- The growth obligation and its consequences
- 9 Growth Objection
- Actually occurring 'degrowth'
- Avoiding the economic trap
- 'Sustainable development' or another model?
- What about the well-being of the South?
- 10 Economic 'Science' as Religion
- From Émile Durkheim to Louis Dumont
- Naturalist dogmas
- The self-immunization of economic religion
- 11 Towards a New Paradigm?
- Heterodoxy as the solution?
- The diversity of economic forms
- The Newtonian impasse.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French in 2010 under the title L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges by Presses de Sciences Po"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848139220
- 1848139225
- 9781848139237
- 1848139233
- OCLC:
- 721884205
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