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Economism

Author : James Kwak
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871202
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Economism written by James Kwak and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths. Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits. In order to illuminate the fallacies of economism, James Kwak first offers a primer on supply and demand, market equilibrium, and social welfare: the underpinnings of most popular economic arguments. Then he provides a historical account of how economism became a prevalent mode of thought in the United States—focusing on the people who packaged Econ 101 into sound bites that were then repeated until they took on the aura of truth. He shows us how issues of moment in contemporary American society—labor markets, taxes, finance, health care, and international trade, among others—are shaped by economism, demonstrating in each case with clarity and élan how, because of its failure to reflect the complexities of our world, economism has had a deleterious influence on policies that affect hundreds of millions of Americans.

Egypt's Occupation

Author : Aaron G. Jakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612627
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Occupation written by Aaron G. Jakes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.

Enter Economism, Exit Politics

Author : Teivo Teivainen
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Enter Economism, Exit Politics written by Teivo Teivainen and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world, public participation in democratic politics is declining sharply. Why and how has democracy come to be undermined in this way? This volume explores this redefinition of the boundaries of the economic and the political spheres.

Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia

Author : Kui-Wai Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134492707
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia written by Kui-Wai Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author challenges current literature by providing an analysis of the differing views of Asian economic development, and providing an innovative alternative conceptual framework for the understanding of the Asian 'dragon' economies Takes a longer term view of the countries' economic development than many of the books on the Asian crisis Will be of importance to all interested in modern economic development - as well as Japan and East Asia, it should have a strong market in the US and Australia

Economism

Author : James Kwak
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525436286
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Economism written by James Kwak and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths. Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits. In order to illuminate the fallacies of economism, James Kwak first offers a primer on supply and demand, market equilibrium, and social welfare: the underpinnings of most popular economic arguments. Then he provides a historical account of how economism became a prevalent mode of thought in the United States—focusing on the people who packaged Econ 101 into sound bites that were then repeated until they took on the aura of truth. He shows us how issues of moment in contemporary American society—labor markets, taxes, finance, health care, and international trade, among others—are shaped by economism, demonstrating in each case with clarity and élan how, because of its failure to reflect the complexities of our world, economism has had a deleterious influence on policies that affect hundreds of millions of Americans.

The Earthist Challenge to Economism

Author : J. Cobb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374255
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Earthist Challenge to Economism written by J. Cobb and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western society moved from a period in which Christianity was the dominant spiritual force to one of nationalism and then to making the economy the object of public devotion. Today this is challenged by those seeking the health of the Earth including all its inhabitants. The World Bank is the economistic institution most open to Earthist concerns. The book evaluates the Bank's potential for leadership in broadening public goals from narrowly economic goods to inclusive ones.

The Birth of Bolshevism: Lenin's struggle against economism

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Resistance Books
ISBN 13 : 9781876646141
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Bolshevism: Lenin's struggle against economism written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education

Author : Almantas Samalavičius
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152750980X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education by : Almantas Samalavičius

Download or read book Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education written by Almantas Samalavičius and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume presents a series of conversations conducted by its editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics. The primary focus is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the complex nature of the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics, and the values and goals educational institutions pursue and produce. Contributors to this volume discuss why the present systems of higher education are ailing almost everywhere, and which remedies have turned out to be their poison. The contributions here investigate how and why universities and the knowledge they seek have become hostages to an ideology based on neoliberalism, economism and a fundamentalism of the market. These ideologies have reshaped higher education and contributed to its commodification and commercialization, transforming educational institutions according to a model that originated in the domains of global business enterprises. Bureaucratization and the growth of a managerial class in higher education have led to universities that focus on what is purportedly marketable, while neglecting the commitment to the pursuit of truth, the education of character and the cultivation of civic values that informed older educational models. The contributors to this book argue, from many different angles, for resistance to these recent developments within higher education.

Hayek and Popper

Author : Mark Notturno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317594215
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Hayek and Popper written by Mark Notturno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as two of the twentieth century’s greatest proponents of open society. However, over the years, Hayek’s ideas have tended to be favoured over Popper’s in both academic and political discussions. This book aims to improve understanding of Popper’s and Hayek’s philosophies by explaining their differences, and whilst doing so, to encourage liberal political philosophers to take a better-informed and more sympathetic look at Popper’s ideas about open society. Popper and Hayek differed in subtle but fundamental ways about rationality, economism, and democracy. They thus differed about whether and to what extent society is well served by deliberate attempts at social engineering and government intervention in the economy. They also differed about whether democracy is better served by institutions designed to elect the best leaders, or by institutions designed to protect us against the leaders we elect. And they differed, perhaps most importantly, about whether we should value freedom as a means to prosperity or an end-in-itself. This book argues that Hayek’s views about rationality, economism, and democracy are fundamentally at odds with Popper’s3⁄4 and perhaps even with open society itself—and that the unintended consequences of Hayek’s views may actually pose a threat to Popper’s vision of a liberal and free open society.

The Economists' Hour

Author : Binyamin Appelbaum
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316512273
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Economists' Hour written by Binyamin Appelbaum and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power. In The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization. Some leading figures are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman, the elfin libertarian who had a greater influence on American life than any other economist of his generation, and Arthur Laffer, who sketched a curve on a cocktail napkin that helped to make tax cuts a staple of conservative economic policy. Others stayed out of the limelight, but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who dictated to his wife and assistants some of the calculations that persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who deregulated air travel and rejoiced in the crowded cabins on commercial flights as the proof of his success; and Thomas Schelling, who put a dollar value on human life. Their fundamental belief? That government should stop trying to manage the economy.Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth, and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But the Economists' Hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations. Timely, engaging and expertly researched, The Economists' Hour is a reckoning -- and a call for people to rewrite the rules of the market. A Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerWinner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography

Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357041
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis focuses on elements that are under-theorized or omitted entirely from the economists’ analysis. This includes the importance of considering class and labor dynamics, the recent rise of finance capitalism, insights from feminism, demography, and conflict studies, the Frankfurt School, the world market and the world-system, the rise of a transnational capitalist class, the coming environmental catastrophe, etc. Our goal is to fully understand and suggest action to address today’s capitalist inequality crisis. Contributors are: Robert J. Antonio, J.I. (Hans) Bakker, Roslyn Wallach Bologh, Alessandro Bonanno, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Harry F. Dahms, Eoin Flaherty, Daniel Krier, Basak Kus, Lauren Langman, Dana Marie Louie, Peter Marcuse, Sandor Nagy, Charles Reitz, William I. Robinson, Saskia Sassen, David A. Smith, David N. Smith, Tony Smith, Michael Thompson, Sylvia Walby, Erik Olin Wright.

Economies of Violence

Author : Jennifer Suchland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375281
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Economies of Violence written by Jennifer Suchland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations proceedings on women's rights issues, government and NGO anti-trafficking policies, and campaigns by feminist activists, Suchland contends that trafficking must be understood not solely as a criminal, gendered, and sexualized phenomenon, but as operating within global systems of precarious labor, neoliberalism, and the transition from socialist to capitalist economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. In shifting the focus away from individual victims, and by underscoring trafficking's economic and social causes, Suchland provides a foundation for building more robust methods for combatting human trafficking.

Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0853458170
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought written by Cornel West and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed American philosopher, Cornel West tackles the ethics of the Marxism agenda In this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American studies program at Princeton University, shows that not only was ethics an integral part of the development of Marx's own thinking throughout his career, but that this crucial concern has been obscured by such leading and influential interpreters as Engels, Kautsky, Luk?cs, and others who diverted Marx's theory into narrow forms of positivism, economism, and Hegelianism.

Economism

Author : Alan C. Schroeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Economism written by Alan C. Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Russian Social-democratic "economism", 1895-1903

Author : James Franklin Brennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Russian Social-democratic "economism", 1895-1903 written by James Franklin Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Alternative Philosophy of Development

Author : Birendra Prasad Mathur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315388723
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book An Alternative Philosophy of Development written by Birendra Prasad Mathur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While development has been the foremost agenda before successive governments in India, it has been viewed narrowly – from the perspective of economic development and particularly in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). This book questions such an approach. It breaks from the conventional wisdom of GDP growth as being a definitive measure of the success of a country’s policies and offers an alternative development philosophy. The author contends that people’s economic and social welfare, life satisfaction, self-fulfilment and happiness should be treated as indicators of real development. The book underlines that in a successful model of development, the country’s economic policies will have to synergize with its cultural ethos and that the objective of development should be gross national happiness and well-being of the people. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, public policy and administration, governance, political science and sociology, as well as to policymakers.

Cleft Capitalism

Author : Amr Adly
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150361221X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cleft Capitalism written by Amr Adly and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the European Commission. Yet after more than four decades of economic reform, the Egyptian economy still fails to meet popular expectations for inclusive growth, better standards of living, and high-quality employment. While many analysts point to cronyism and corruption, Amr Adly finds the root causes of this stagnation in the underlying social and political conditions of economic development. Cleft Capitalism offers a new explanation for why market-based development can fail to meet expectations: small businesses in Egypt are not growing into medium and larger businesses. The practical outcome of this missing middle syndrome is the continuous erosion of the economic and social privileges once enjoyed by the middle classes and unionized labor, without creating enough winners from market making. This in turn set the stage for alienation, discontent, and, finally, revolt. With this book, Adly uncovers both an institutional explanation for Egypt's failed market making, and sheds light on the key factors of arrested economic development across the Global South.