Economy and the future : a crisis of faith / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, 1941-

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Standardized Title:

Avenir de l'economie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A monster stalks the earth-a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by a light that comes from the future: the Keynesian crisis of expectations. It is this same light that causes the world's leaders to tremble before the beast. They tremble, Jean-Pierre Dupuy says, because they have lost faith in the future. What Dupuy calls Economy has degenerated today into a mad spectacle of unrestrained consumption and speculation. But in its positive form-a truly political eco

Contents:

Economy and the problem of evil

Self-transcendence

The economics of the end and the end of economics

Critique of economic reason

The way out from fatalism.

Notes:

Published in French as L'avenir de l'economie: sortir de l'economystification in 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-162) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60917-433-X

OCLC:

890674620