Savage economics
wealth, poverty, and the temporal walls of capitalism
- ISBN: 9780415548489
- Editorial: Routledge
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Ripe series in global political economy
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 237
- Idiomas: Inglés
This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world.
Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically describes the nature of the mainstream understanding of economics. Blaney and Inayatullah construct a powerful argument about how political economy and the capitalist market economy should be understood, demonstrating that poverty is a product of capitalism itself. They address the questions:
Is wealth for some bought at the cost of impoverishing, colonizing, or eradicating others?
What benefits of wealth might justify these human costs?
What do we gain and lose by endorsing a system of wealth creation?
Do even "savage cultures" contain values, critiques, and ways of life that the West still needs?
Opening the way for radically different policies addressing poverty and demanding a rethink of the connections between political economy and international relations, this thought-provoking book is vital reading for students and scholars of politics, economics, IPE and international relations.
The cultural constitution of political economy
The savage Smith and the temporal walls of capitalism
Necro-economics and Steuart's geocultural political economy
Capitalism's wounds: Ferguson's international political economy
Shed no tears: Hegel's necro-philosophy
Marx and temporal difference
Savage times