critical political economy

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1、Downloadedby[ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity]at08:0922November2012CriticalPoliticalEconomyDoestodaysmainstreameconomicsreallyprovidethetheoreticalconceptsandtheteachingandresearchpracticesthatcouldfosteratrulyfreeecon-omy?Isntit,onthecontrary,adisciplinethatstiflescriticism

2、andneglectsourmostbasicfacultiesofreflectionandimagination?Thisbookaskshowamoreliberatingeconomicscouldbeconstructedandtaught.Itsuggeststhatifeconomiststodayareseriousaboutemancipationandempowerment,theywillhavetoradicallychangetheirconceptionaboutwhatitmeansforacitize

3、ntoactrationallyinacomplexsociety.Arnspergeremphasizesthatcurrenteconomicsneglectsanimportantfact:Manyofusasknotonlywhatsinitforus,withinagivensocio-economiccontext;wealsocareaboutthecontextitself.Theauthorarguesthatifcitizenskeenonexercisingtheircriticalreasonactuall

4、ydemandedeconomictheoriesthatallowedthemtodoso,economicswouldhavetobecomeaconstantlyemerging,open-endedknowledgeprocess.Heclaimsthatinatrulyfreeeconomy,therewouldbenoall-outwarbetweenorthodoxandheterodoxapproaches,butanintricateandunpredictablepost-orthodoxpluralismth

5、atwouldemergefromthecitizensowncom-plexinteractions.Offeringanoriginalandpath-breakingcombinationofinsightsfromHayek,thetheoryofcomplexity,andtheFrankfurtSchoolofsocialcriti-cism,Arnspergerdiscusseshowsuchafreeeconomywouldgenerateitsspecificbrandofeconomics,calledCriti

6、calPoliticalEconomy.Theresultisachallengingandsometimesdisturbingbookwhichwillbeofinteresttoeconomistsaswellasphilosophersofsocialscience.ChristianArnspergerisSeniorResearchFellowwiththeBelgianNationalDownloadedby[ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity]at08:0922November2012Scienc

7、eFoundation(FRS-FNRS)andAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofLouvain-la-Neuve,Belgium.RoutledgeFrontiersofPoliticalEconomy1EquilibriumVersusUnderstanding9NewKeynesianEconomics/PostTowardstherehumanizationofKeynesianAlternativeseconomicswithinsocialtheoryEditedbyRoyJ.Rot

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