Economism

Author : James Kwak
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525436287

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Economism by James Kwak Pdf

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.

Author : Aaron G. Jakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503612624

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Egypt's Occupation by Aaron G. Jakes Pdf

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.

Author : J. Cobb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230374256

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The Earthist Challenge to Economism by J. Cobb Pdf

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.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Communism
ISBN : 1876646144

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The Birth of Bolshevism: Lenin's struggle against economism by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Kui-Wai Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134492695

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Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia by Kui-Wai Li Pdf

Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian economies since 1950. The author summarizes and reconsiders many of the arguments and findings that supported and explained the economic 'miracles' of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, analysing the relationship between economic development, growth and political economy. This pioneering book will stimulate further analysis of East Asian development. It will be of essential interest to scholars in East Asian economics, and all those interested in modern economic development.

Author : Teivo Teivainen
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1842770357

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Enter Economism, Exit Politics by Teivo Teivainen Pdf

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.

Author : Binyamin Appelbaum
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316512275

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The Economists' Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum Pdf

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

Author : Johan Christensen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503601857

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The Power of Economists within the State by Johan Christensen Pdf

The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Governments have, to varying degrees, adopted policies that have led to deregulation: the liberalization of trade; the privatization of state entities; and low-rate, broad-base taxes. Yet some countries embraced these policies more than others. Johan Christensen examines one major contributor to this disparity: the entrenchment of U.S.-trained, neoclassical economists in political institutions the world over. While previous studies have highlighted the role of political parties and production regimes, Christensen uses comparative case studies of New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, and Denmark to show how the influence of economists affected the extent to which each nation adopted market-oriented tax policies. He finds that, in countries where economic experts held powerful positions, neoclassical economics broke through with greater force. Drawing on revealing interviews with 80 policy elites, he examines the specific ways in which economists shaped reforms, relying on an activist approach to policymaking and the perceived utility of their science to drive change.

Author : Michael Pirson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107160729

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Humanistic Management by Michael Pirson Pdf

This book presents a humanistic science-based framework for management, promoting an ethical and responsible approach to addressing current global societal problems.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004383678

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Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day: Selected Writings by Raya Dunayevskaya brings out the contemporary urgency of the totality of Marx’s body of ideas and activities, and the inseparability of his economics, humanism, and dialectic.

Author : Mark Notturno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317594215

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Hayek and Popper by Mark Notturno Pdf

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.

Author : James Franklin Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCAL:C2947555

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Russian Social-democratic "economism", 1895-1903 by James Franklin Brennan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004357044

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

Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection of critical essays on the economist’s iconic 2014 book, from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, mostly drawn from the Marxist tradition.

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674981690

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The Ordinary Virtues by Michael Ignatieff Pdf

During a 3-year, 8-nation journey, Michael Ignatieff found that while human rights is the language of states and liberal elites, the moral language that resonates with most people is that of everyday virtues: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. These ordinary virtues are the moral system of global cities and obscure shantytowns alike.

Author : David Hepburn Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2938953

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The Politics of Economism by David Hepburn Milton Pdf