Beyond Economics
Post Modernity, Globalization and National Sustainability
Avebury (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 1996
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-1-85972-341-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work summarizes an already comprehensive field of criticisms of received economics and advanced new ones, particularly with respect to free trade and the industrialisation of economic systems. If global economic and ecological catastrophe is to be avoided, nations and communities must move towards greater self-reliance within the framework of a much less resource-wasteful existence. But to do this will require not merely a cosmetic change in the present socio-economic system, but a change of such magnitude that it dwarfs previous social transformations in human history. This great transformation must occur by conscious human activity and it must occur quickly if human civilizations, and indeed human life itself, is to continue.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 226 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-341-8 (9781859723418)
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Content
Crisis and critique in the republic under seige; philosophy, politics and the common life; globalization and a fatally wounded community; Marx, globalization and the spectre of nationalism; enlightenment reason and nationalist prejudice; nihilism, nationalism and the technocratic state.