LEADER 04274nam 2200685 450 001 9910810583703321 005 20210311111955.0 010 $a1-350-22305-0 010 $a1-78360-026-8 010 $a1-84813-925-X 010 $a1-283-35510-8 010 $a9786613355102 010 $a1-84813-924-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350223059 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131460 035 $a(OCoLC)768167427 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10520624 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611669 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12233797 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611669 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666340 035 $a(PQKB)10229129 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10520624 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL335510 035 $a(OCoLC)768083069 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350223059 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131460 100 $a20210311h20212011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe delusions of economics $ethe misguided certainties of a hazardous science /$fGilbert Rist 210 1$aLondon, England :$cZed Books,$d2011. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 300 $aOriginally published in French in 2010 under the title L'e?conomie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges. 311 $a1-84813-922-5 311 $a1-84813-923-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAbout 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. 327 $aDo 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. 327 $a'Sustainable development' or another model 'What about the well-being of the South'; 10 Economic 'Science' as Religion; From E?mile 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aNeoclassical school of economics 606 $aInternational economics$2bicssc 615 0$aNeoclassical school of economics. 615 7$aInternational economics 676 $a330.157 700 $aRist$b Gilbert$0140749 801 0$bEBLCP 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810583703321 996 $aThe delusions of economics$93981436 997 $aUNINA