Economic Man

Author : Marianne A. Ferber,Julie A. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226242088

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Beyond Economic Man by Marianne A. Ferber,Julie A. Nelson Pdf

This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not objective enough. The contributors—nine economists, a sociologist, and a philosopher—discuss the extent to which gender has influenced both the range of subjects economists have studied and the way in which scholars have conducted their studies. They investigate, for example, how masculine concerns underlie economists' concentration on market as opposed to household activities and their emphasis on individual choice to the exclusion of social constraints on choice. This focus on masculine interests, the contributors contend, has biased the definition and boundaries of the discipline, its central assumptions, and its preferred rhetoric and methods. However, the aim of this book is not to reject current economic practices, but to broaden them, permitting a fuller understanding of economic phenomena. These essays examine current economic practices in the light of a feminist understanding of gender differences as socially constructed rather than based on essential male and female characteristics. The authors use this concept of gender, along with feminist readings of rhetoric and the history of science, as well as postmodernist theory and personal experience as economists, to analyze the boundaries, assumptions, and methods of neoclassical, socialist, and institutionalist economics. The contributors are Rebecca M. Blank, Paula England, Marianne A. Ferber, Nancy Folbre, Ann L. Jennings, Helen E. Longino, Donald N. McCloskey, Julie A. Nelson, Robert M. Solow, Diana Strassmann, and Rhonda M. Williams.

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576755129

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Pdf

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626566750

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Pdf

Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back. Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it. Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago. As dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

Author : Marianne A. Ferber,Julie A. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226775166

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Feminist Economics Today by Marianne A. Ferber,Julie A. Nelson Pdf

The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's Beyond Economic Man was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering both a thorough overview of feminist economic thought and a collection of new, high-quality work from the field's leading scholars.

Author : Frank Stronach
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443420716

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The Magna Man by Frank Stronach Pdf

Frank Stronach came to Canada from Austria with a few dollars in his pocket, a lot of hustle and a hunger to succeed. In a few short years, the young Stronach went from washing dishes to starting up his own tool and die shop in a rented garage, working long hours and sleeping on a fold-up bed next to his machines. He would build that small shop into Magna International Inc., one of the biggest auto parts manufacturers in the world, with more than 118,000 employees in twenty-nine countries. For the first time, and in his own words, Canada’s greatest industrialist tells the remarkable story of how he overcame hardship and heartache to climb to the top of a fiercely competitive industry. Along the way, he shares the blueprint for his company’s spectacular success: a unique business philosophy he created called Fair Enterprise. This can’t- fail formula has fuelled the company’s unstoppable growth and allowed Magna to share billions of dollars in profit with employees, managers, shareholders and society. An inspirational story of business triumph and innovation, The Magna Man is also an invaluable guide for anyone eager to start a business acquire the skills of a highly effective leader or make a difference in the world.

Author : Katrine Marçal
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781846275654

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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal Pdf

Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today, economics focuses on self-interest and excludes our other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking and its influence has spread from the market to how we shop, think and date. In this engaging takedown of the economics that has failed us, Katrine Maral journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.

Author : Martin Hollis,Edward J. Nell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:859711394

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Rational Economic Man by Martin Hollis,Edward J. Nell Pdf

Author : Ulla Grapard,Gillian Hewitson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136667091

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Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man by Ulla Grapard,Gillian Hewitson Pdf

In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the pervasive belief of mainstream economics that Robinson Crusoe is a benign representative of economic agency, and that he, like other economic agents, can be understood independently of historical and cultural specificity. The book provides a detailed account of the appearance of Robinson Crusoe in the economics literature and in a plethora of modern economics texts, in which, for example, we find Crusoe is portrayed as a schizophrenic consumer/producer trying to maximize his personal well-being. Using poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, Marxist and literary criticism approaches, the authors of the fourteen chapters in this volume examine and critique some of the deepest, fundamental assumptions neoclassical economics hold about human nature; the political economy of colonization; international trade; and the pervasive gendered organization of social relations. The contributors to this volume can be seen as engaging in the emerging conversation between economists and literary scholars known as the New Economic Criticism. They offer unique perspectives on how the economy and economic thought can be read through different disciplinary lenses. Economists pay attention to rhetoric and metaphor deployed in economics, and literary scholars have found new areas to explore and understand by focusing on economic concepts and vocabulary encountered in literary texts.

Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351304221

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The End of Economic Man by Peter Drucker Pdf

In The End of Economic Man, long recognized as a cornerstone work, Peter F. Drucker explains and interprets fascism and Nazism as fundamental revolutions. In some ways, this book anticipated by more than a decade the existentialism that came to dominate the European political mood in the postwar period. Drucker provides a special addition to the massive literature on existentialism and alienation since World War II. The End of Economic Man is a social and political effort to explain the subjective consequences of the social upheavals caused by warfare. Drucker concentrates on one specific historical event: the breakdown of the social and political structure of Europe which culminated in the rise of Nazi totalitarianism to mastery over Europe. He explains the tragedy of Europe as the loss of political faith, resulting from the political alienation of the European masses. The End of Economic Man is a book of great social import. It shows not only what might have helped the older generation avert the catastrophe of Nazism, but also how today's generation can prevent another such catastrophe. This work will be of special interest to political scientists, intellectual historians, and sociologists. The book was singled out for praise on both sides of the Atlantic, and is considered by the author to be his most prescient effort in social theory.

Author : Gillian J. Hewitson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economic man
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023668044

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Feminist Economics by Gillian J. Hewitson Pdf

Hewitson (business, La Trobe U., Australia) uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to expose the masculinity of the allegedly unsexed figure of the neoclassical "rational economic man". Employing a wide range of poststructuralist writings, she argues that neoclassical economics does construct sexual differences and that the notion of the exchanging agent, commonly perceived as a universal and sexless individual, cannot accommodate sexual differences, thus concluding that neoclassical economics cannot accommodate women's differences.

Author : Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292767874

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Approaches to Homer by Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine Pdf

Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.

Author : George P. Brockway
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Economic man
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001919088

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The End of Economic Man by George P. Brockway Pdf

"In any future economics, George Brockway proposes, this concern will be reversed. Human beings will be more important that things, and what Carlyle quite properly called the dismal science will take on a new and humane aspect. Like the good life it celebrates, the book requires thought and stimulates thought, starting with the Prologue, "Life Is Unfair. Why Should We Care?" Throughout the book original theory is intertwined with practical example, as in the chapter titled "Why the Trade Deficit Won't Go Away."--book jacket

Author : Ulla Grapard,Gillian Hewitson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136667107

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Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man by Ulla Grapard,Gillian Hewitson Pdf

In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the pervasive belief of mainstream economics that Robinson Crusoe is a benign representative of economic agency, and that he, like other economic agents, can be understood independently of historical and cultural specificity. The book provides a detailed account of the appearance of Robinson Crusoe in the economics literature and in a plethora of modern economics texts, in which, for example, we find Crusoe is portrayed as a schizophrenic consumer/producer trying to maximize his personal well-being. Using poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, Marxist and literary criticism approaches, the authors of the fourteen chapters in this volume examine and critique some of the deepest, fundamental assumptions neoclassical economics hold about human nature; the political economy of colonization; international trade; and the pervasive gendered organization of social relations. The contributors to this volume can be seen as engaging in the emerging conversation between economists and literary scholars known as the New Economic Criticism. They offer unique perspectives on how the economy and economic thought can be read through different disciplinary lenses. Economists pay attention to rhetoric and metaphor deployed in economics, and literary scholars have found new areas to explore and understand by focusing on economic concepts and vocabulary encountered in literary texts.

Author : J. Gay Tulip Meeks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521325749

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Thoughtful Economic Man by J. Gay Tulip Meeks Pdf

An authoritative examination of the implications of conventional conceptions of rational economic man for all economic study as well as the role of rationality and morals in economics.

Author : Harold Demsetz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107640856

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From Economic Man to Economic System by Harold Demsetz Pdf

A collection of essays discussing human behaviour and the institutions of capitalism. The essays are non-technical and can be used by students of all disciplines interested in capitalism and in economic behaviour. They often present unconventional views of the topics they discuss. Those containing unconventional views discuss self-interested behaviour, selfish gene theory, the meaning and social function of private ownership, the externality problem, the nature of the firm, and the rise of capitalism. The essays offer a useful supplementary reading source for courses in business, economics, and law that deal with human behaviour in the marketplace and with capitalism, ownership, markets, and firms.