Critical Political Economy : Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism

Name: Critical Political Economy:Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism
ISBN: 9780429240669

doi:10.4324/9780203931981

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ABSTRACT

This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation and empowerment, they will have to radically change their conception about what it means for a citizen to act rationally in a complex society.Arnsperger emphasises that current economics neglects an imp

Critical Political Economy

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Uncritical complexity

chapter 2|33 pages

Uncritical atoms: The limits of standard economics

chapter 3|26 pages

Uncritical mass: The limits of complexity economics

chapter 4|21 pages

The use of uncritical knowledge in society

part |2 pages

PART II Bottom-up Critical Theory: the logic of self-criticizing complexity

chapter 5|34 pages

The use of critical knowledge about society

chapter 6|23 pages

Bottom-up Critical Theory: What does economics describe?

chapter 7|33 pages

A self-criticizing economic system

part |2 pages

PART III Toward a critical mainstream?

chapter 8|32 pages

A formal approach to critically rational action

part |2 pages

PART IV Critical Political Economy: the logic of ‘‘post-orthodox’’ pluralism

chapter 9|25 pages

The use of economics in a complex economy

chapter 10|19 pages

Free-economy economics

chapter 11|18 pages

Post-orthodox pluralism in economics