Raphael Sassower

The Quest for Prosperity

Reframing Political Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks what are the common assumptions - or frames of references - that underlie our understanding of political economy today. How many of them are worthy of retaining? Could others be discarded?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781783489299
• ISBN-10: 1783489294
• Artikelnr.: 45717462

Autorenporträt

Raphael Sassower is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including The Price of Public Intellectuals (2014), Religion and Sports in American Culture (2014), Digital Exposure: Postmodern Postcapitalism (2013) and Solo: Postmodern Explorations (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Standard Frames of Reference
1. Abundance and Scarcity
2. The State of Nature and the Social Contract
3. Human Nature and the Human Condition
4. Individual vs. Communal Property Rights
5. Markets
6. Economic Growth
Part II: The Assumptions Underlying these Frames
7. Dangerous Assumptions
8. Useful Assumptions
9. Alternative Models and the Question of Scale
Part III: Current Models
10. Contemporary Capitalisms and their Faults
11. The Perils of Globalization
12. Remixing and the Knockoff Economy
13. Marketing the Sharing Economy
Part IV: Reframing Political Economy
14. Informative Case Studies
15. Moral Framing of Political Economy
Epilogue
Bibliography