LEADER 03601nam 22006615 450 001 9910300515403321 005 20240724135747.0 010 $a9789811062599 010 $a9811062595 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-10-6259-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882935 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-10-6259-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5112965 035 $a(PPN)259469947 035 $a(Perlego)3485914 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882935 100 $a20171024d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Age of Post-Rationality $eLimits of economic reasoning in the 21st century /$fby Val Colic-Peisker, Adrian Flitney 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 253 p. 17 illus. in color.) 311 08$a9789811062582 311 08$a9811062587 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aChapter 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?. 330 $aThis 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. . 606 $aInternational economic relations 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aSociology 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aInternational Political Economy' 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aSociology 606 $aPolitical Philosophy 615 0$aInternational economic relations. 615 0$aGlobalization. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aInternational Political Economy'. 615 24$aGlobalization. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aSociology. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 676 $a339 700 $aColic-Peisker$b Val$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0964115 702 $aFlitney$b Adrian$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300515403321 996 $aThe Age of Post-Rationality$92200096 997 $aUNINA