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The Cult of the Market

Author : Lee Boldeman
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313544
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Market written by Lee Boldeman and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents' disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, along with their gross simplifications and sacred rules. Economics cannot provide a convincing overarching theory of government action or of social action more generally. Furthermore, mainstream economics fails to get to grips with the economic system as it actually operates. It advocates a more overtly experimental, eclectic and pragmatic approach to policy development which takes more seriously the complex, interdependent, evolving nature of society and the economy. Importantly, it is an outlook that recognises the pervasive influence of asymmetries of wealth, power and information on bargaining power and prospects throughout society. The book advocates a major reform of the teaching of economics"--Provided by publisher.

The Cult of the Market

Author : Lee Boldeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921313530
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Market written by Lee Boldeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way that economic fundamentalism influences current public policy and argues that its dominance has forced out other world views.

The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism

Author : Richard Kozul-Wright
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism written by Richard Kozul-Wright and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this empirical analysis of the world economy during the past 20 years, two eminent economists put aside the rhetoric surrounding the neoliberal argument and examine what has actually taken place. The book will appeal to students and academics concerned with how globalisation affects poor countries.

The Power of Market Fundamentalism

Author : Fred Block
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674050711
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Market Fundamentalism written by Fred Block and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from disrepute in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, to become the dominant economic ideology of our time. Polanyi contends that the free market championed by market liberals never actually existed. While markets are essential to enable individual choice, they cannot be self-regulating because they require ongoing state action. Furthermore, they cannot by themselves provide such necessities of social existence as education, health care, social and personal security, and the right to earn a livelihood. When these public goods are subjected to market principles, social life is threatened and major crises ensue. Despite these theoretical flaws, market principles are powerfully seductive because they promise to diminish the role of politics in civic and social life. Because politics entails coercion and unsatisfying compromises among groups with deep conflicts, the wish to narrow its scope is understandable. But like Marx's theory that communism will lead to a "withering away of the State," the ideology that free markets can replace government is just as utopian and dangerous.

Capital Fundamentalism, Economic Development, and Economic Growth

Author : Robert Graham King
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Fundamentalism, Economic Development, and Economic Growth written by Robert Graham King and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should our research and policy advice be guided by a modern version of capital fundamentalism, in which capital and investment are viewed as the primary determinants of economic development and long- run growth? No. Capital accumulation seems to be part of the process of economic development, not its igniting source.

The Market Tells Them So

Author : John Mihevc
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856493284
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Market Tells Them So written by John Mihevc and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on 1) theological dimensions of the structural adjustment vision promoted by the World Bank for Africa; 2) criticism of structural adjustment from social scientific perspectives; and 3) religious responses to this agenda that have emerged from churches and church-based movements in Africa.

Chicago Fundamentalism

Author : Craig Freedman
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812811990
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Fundamentalism written by Craig Freedman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cold war ideology infected the development of economics in ways its practitioners were often not fully aware. The Chicago counter-revolution against the dominant post-war triumph of Keynesian analysis had an essential subtext, a perceived struggle between freedom and collective slavery, ideological objectives subsequently influenced methodological concerns, pushing economists to adopt the zero-sum tactics of the courtroom rather than the mutually beneficial manners of the senior common room. In these ideologically charged times, economists stopped reading opposing views carefully, seeking instead to dismiss, out of hand uncongenial ideas." "In this collection of previously published and new material, Craig Freedman examines the problem of ideology through the reflection cast by the architects of the Chicago counter-revolution, George Stigler and Milton Friedman. The second half of the volume demonstrates the legacy of these ideological fires, namely a profession where the methodology of careless reading and zero-sum exchanges have persisted and come to dominate."--BOOK JACKET.

Minds Wide Shut

Author : Gary Saul Morson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691242577
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Minds Wide Shut written by Gary Saul Morson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight it Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist Morton Schapiro call “fundamentalist.” In Minds Wide Shut, Morson and Schapiro examine how rigid adherence to ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical to the open-mindedness and readiness to compromise that animate democracy. In response, they propose alternatives that would again make serious dialogue possible. Fundamentalist thinking, Morson and Schapiro argue, is not limited to any one camp. It flourishes across the political spectrum, giving rise to dueling monologues of shouting and abuse between those who are certain that they can’t be wrong, that truth and justice are all on their side, and that there is nothing to learn from their opponents, who must be evil or deluded. But things don’t have to be this way. Drawing on thinkers and writers from across the humanities and social sciences, Morson and Schapiro show how we might begin to return to meaningful dialogue through case-based reasoning, objective analyses, lessons drawn from literature, and more. The result is a powerful invitation to leave behind simplification, rigidity, and extremism—and to move toward a future of greater open-mindedness, moderation, and, perhaps, even wisdom.

America's Free Market Myths

Author : Joseph Shaanan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319506366
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book America's Free Market Myths written by Joseph Shaanan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths. The myths are deeply ingrained in the United States' self-image and in political discourse, and are hailed as indisputable, scientifically grounded truths. Unfortunately, an economy dominated by giant corporations bears little resemblance to a free market. So why is so much effort and expense devoted to disseminating these stories? The answer is simple. The different myths generate the recommendation that the system's rewards should flow upward to corporations and a small group of wealthy and politically influential people. The myths help entrench existing economic and political power while distancing America from a more productive and widely beneficial form of capitalism.

The Devil of Economic Fundamentalism

Author : Javed Jamil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Devil of Economic Fundamentalism written by Javed Jamil and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Economic Fundamentalism

Author : Jane Kelsey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Economic Fundamentalism written by Jane Kelsey and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 the New Zealand Labour government became the first developed Western economy to make a systematic attempt at "structural adjustment". This book examines the process through which this experiment took place, and what it has meant for the country's economic, political and cultural life.

Fundamentalisms and the State

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalisms and the State written by Martin E. Marty and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of the Fundamentalism Project provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years. The distinguished contributors to this volume - economists, political scientists, religious historians, social anthropologists, and sociologists - focus on the impact these movements have had on national economies, political parties, constitutional issues, and international relations on five continents and within the religious traditions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Do fundamentalisms tend toward political activism, and how successful have they been in remaking political structures? To answer this question and others, the contributors discuss the anti-abortion movement in the U.S., the Islamic war of resistance in Afghanistan, and Shiite jurisprudence in Iran. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby conclude the volume with a synthetic statement of fundamentalist impact on polities, economies, and state security. The Fundamentalism Project is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that involves an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come.

Principles of Economics for a Post-Meltdown World

Author : John Komlos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319278282
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Economics for a Post-Meltdown World written by John Komlos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief emphasizes the ways in which introductory economics textbooks incorrectly rely on assumptions about the free market, the rational agent model, market fundamentalism, and standard long-standing assumptions in economics, and in doing so disregard the effects of incomplete and asymmetric information on choice and on allocation, and maintain a general but flawed belief that competitive markets can always provide efficient solutions automatically. In other words, the standard economics principles textbook is anachronistic, they assume that tastes are exogenous, they overlook interdependencies and externalities not only in production but in consumption of goods, and they overlook the fact that path-dependence is a major hindrance to optimization. Mainstream principles of economics textbooks distort our worldview with immense political and cultural consequences. Students of these principles deserve a more complete perspective, and this brief critiques that conventional worldview and provides an alternative perspective, with an emphasis on free-market economics wherein the human element should be paramount and moral judgments should override market outcomes. In other words, what is important is not GNP as much as the quality of life, not institutions but how people live and fare in them. This brief argues that economics cannot be a science; it has too many ideological aspects, and in many ways conventional textbooks are not providing a true-to-life depiction of the economy. This Brief will be a reference or supplemental text for college and university students enrolled in such applied undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars in economics and economic theory.

Economic Fundamentalism

Author : Jane Kelsey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745310435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Economic Fundamentalism written by Jane Kelsey and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 the New Zealand Labour government became the first developed Western economy to make a systematic attempt at "structural adjustment". This book examines the process through which this experiment took place, and what it has meant for the country's economic, political and cultural life.

Economic Fundamentalism

Author : Jane Kelsey
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Fundamentalism written by Jane Kelsey and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 the New Zealand Labour government became the first developed Western economy to make a systematic attempt at "structural adjustment". This book examines the process through which this experiment took place, and what it has meant for the country's economic, political and cultural life.

Economic Fundamentalism

Author : Janice Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863894883
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Economic Fundamentalism written by Janice Howard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Economics after Neoliberalism

Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1946511455
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Economics after Neoliberalism written by Joshua Cohen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can look beyond the tyranny of market logic in our public lives to reimagine the fundamentals of democracy. Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, Economics After Neoliberalism offers a powerful case for a new brand of economics—one focused on power and inequality and aimed at a more inclusive society. Three prominent economists—Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman—lead off with a vision for economic policy that stands as a genuine alternative to market fundamentalism. Contributors from across the spectrum expand on the state of creative ferment Naidu, Rodrik, and Zucman describe and offer new essays that challenge the current shape of markets and suggest more democratic alternatives. Contributors Samuel Bowles, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Oren Cass, William R. Easterly, Alice Evans, Amy Kapczynski, Robert Manduca, Suresh Naidu, Caleb Orr, Lenore Palladino, Margaret Peters, Corey Robin, Dani Rodrik, Debra Satz, Quinn Slobodian, Marshall Steinbaum, Arvind Subramanian, Gabriel Zucman.