The Age of Post-Rationality Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Colic-Peisker, Val (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Flitney, Adrian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Political economy.; Globalization.; Human geography.; Sociology.; Political philosophy.; International Political Economy.; Human Geography.; Sociology, general.; Political Philosophy.

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has be...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. A rational society
• Chapter 3. The tyranny of competition
• Chapter 4. Hyper-consumption and inequality
• Chapter 5. The great gamble of global finance vs. the real economy
• Chapter 6. Economic rationality vs. the Earth
• Chapter 7. The promise and threat of the Internet age
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: Into a bright post-capitalist future?.