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

Autor Val Colic-Peisker, Adrian Flitney
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 noi 2017
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 become an ideological black hole whose gravitational pull allows no public debate or policy to escape. Political leaders of all creeds are held in its orbit and public language is saturated by it. This dogma has pervaded all spheres of life, ushering the age of post-rationality, especially in English speaking countries. The authors discuss several aspects of post-rational global capitalism still dominated by the Anglosphere: hyper-competition, hyper-consumption, inequality, volatile global financial markets, environmental degradation and the unforeseen effects of the internet-mediated communication revolution. The book concludes by discussing some utopian and dystopian future scenarios and asking whether the West can transcend its crisis of rationality.   
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811062582
ISBN-10: 9811062587
Pagini: 253
Ilustrații: XIV, 253 p. 17 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

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?.

Notă biografică

Val Colic-Peisker is an associate professor of sociology at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne. She has previously worked as journalist, translator, radio-producer and free-lance author. She has published extensively in mainstream and academic media.

Adrian P. Flitney is a quantum physicist who makes his living as a share trader. This gives him considerable insight into the vicissitudes of both the universe and global financial markets. He has published widely in the field of quantum games. 


Caracteristici

Provides penetrating analysis and updated accounts to explain why neoliberalism is a bankrupt philosophy Debunks populist scapegoats by providing insights into the current attacks on critical thinking and dialogue Offers new creative thinking about social and economic issues in the world today

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This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality.