America's education deficit and the war on youth [[electronic resource] /] / by Henry A. Giroux

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786732303321
• Autore: Giroux Henry A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Monthly Review Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-58367-347-4; 1-58367-346-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.73
• Soggetti: Youth - Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenging Casino Capitalism and Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Disposability; 1. Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism; 2. The Scorched Earth Politics of America's Four Fundamentalisms; 3. Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life; 4. Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America; 5. The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth; 6. Religious Fundamentalism, the Attack on Public Schools, and the Crisis of Reason; 7. Gated Intellectuals and Fortress America: Toward a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement8. The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope; 9. Neoliberalism's War against Teachers in Dark Times: Rethinking the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings; 10. Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ""four fundamentalisms"": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of ; society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly desi

The delusions of economics : the misguided certainties of a hazardous science / / Gilbert Rist

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789710703321
• Autore: Rist Gilbert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2011; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-350-22305-0; 1-78360-026-8; 1-84813-925-X; 1-283-35510-8; 9786613355102; 1-84813-924-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.157
• Soggetti: Neoclassical school of economics; International economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published in French in 2010 under the title L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: About the Author; Introduction; 1 Economics between History and Anthropology; The trap of autonomous disciplines; Changing the optic; From reductionism to complexity; 2 A Failed Scientific Ambition; The triumph of mechanics; Thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time; The impotence of economic 'reason'; 3 Homo Oeconomicus: A Dangerous Phantom; The unlocatable individual; How to construct society?; The tautologies of methodological individualism; 4 Exchange; The right words for it; Prescription or proscription; Giving, receiving and giving back; Market exchange or inverted logic.; Do the axioms of self-interest serve the interests of exchange partners?; 5 The Fairy Tale of Scarcity; The two faces of scarcity; The ; means of abundance; How to conquer violence in society?; The dual paradox; 6 Utility and Futility; Questions for Jeremy Bentham; How to define utility?; Reductionist assumptions; 7 Equilibrium; The Walrasian model; 8 The Growth Obsession; What economic 'science' has chosen to exclude; National accounting and the invention of GDP; The growth obligation and its consequences; 9 Growth Objection; Actually occurring 'degrowth'; Avoiding the economic trap.; 'Sustainable development' or another model 'What about the well-being of the South'; 10 Economic 'Science' as Religion; From Émile Durkheim to Louis Dumont; Naturalist dogmas; The self-immunization of economic religion; 11 Towards a New Paradigm?; Heterodoxy as the solution?; The diversity of economic forms; The Newtonian impasse; Conclusion; A look back at the origins of the crisis; Polanyi is back; Changing everything so that it remains the same; The blindness of ordinary economics; Hopes of change?; Critique as the precondition of a new paradigm; Bibliography; Index; About Zed Books.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Delusions of Economics presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics. Rather than entering into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Gilbert Rist explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was 'invented' and that helped to construct it as a science. Rist demonstrates how these presuppositions are either obsolete or just plain wrong, and that traditional economics is largely based on irrational convictions.