The Age of Post-Rationality Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century /

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has be...

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1. Verfasser: Colic-Peisker, Val (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Political economy.
Globalization.
Human geography.
Sociology.
Political philosophy.
ISBN:9789811062599
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. A rational society
  • Chapter 3. The tyranny of competition
  • Chapter 4. Hyper-consumption and inequality
  • Chapter 5. The great gamble of global finance vs. the real economy
  • Chapter 6. Economic rationality vs. the Earth
  • Chapter 7. The promise and threat of the Internet age
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion: Into a bright post-capitalist future?.

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