Arturo Hermann

The Systemic Nature of the Economic Crisis

The perspectives of heterodox economics and psychoanalysis

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Produktbeschreibung

The most prominent aspect of the current financial crisis is its systemic character which manifests itself in high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay. This book explores the potential of a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach for a deeper understanding of the manifold aspects of the economic crisis. This book examines the potential of a number of contributions from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis in providing a deeper understanding of these problems. The book analyses some of the most debated aspects of the concepts of market, democracy and socialism and explores the role of structural ties between economic, social and psychological aspects of collective life. It also addresses the main economic aspects of the crisis and pays particular attention to a number of structural imbalances, and to the psychological interpretation of these phenomena. By drawing together approaches from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis, this book adopts a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach to the study of these phenomena and manages to overcome the fragmentation so often present in social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781138800229
• ISBN-10: 1138800228
• Artikelnr.: 41754822

Autorenporträt

Arturo Hermann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Psychoanalytic Approach and its Potential for a Better Understanding
of Economic and Social Phenomena 1. The Perspective of Psychoanalysis: An
Outline 2. Implications for the Study of Economic and Social Phenomena 3.
Psychoanalysis and Social Change 4. Some Controversial Aspects of
Psychoanalysis II. The Perspective of Institutional Economics and its
Potential for a Better Understanding of Economic and Social Phenomena 5.
Institutional Economics: The Historical and Theoretical Framework 6.
Veblen's Evolutionary Perspective 7. Commons's Theory of Collective Action
8. The Decline of Institutional Economics in the post World War II Period
and the New Developments of Today III. The Institutional Analysis of the
Market and the Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Evolution 9. The Market
in the Heterodox Perspective 10. The Role of "Materialistic" and
Psychological Factors in Social Evolution IV. The Economic and
Psychological Aspect s of the Crisis of Today 11. The Role of Policy
Coordination in Structural Problems 12. Public Spending and Credit Creation
as the Drivers of Aggregate Demand 13. Economic and Psychological
Implications V. The Structural Transformation of Economic Systems and the
Social and Psychological Implications 14. The Structural Tendency of
Aggregate Demand To Lag Behind the Aggregate Supply of Full Employment 15.
The"Affluent Society" of John Kenneth Galbraith and Its Relevance for the
Problems of Today