Economy and the Future: A Crisis of Faith - Couverture souple

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611861462 ISBN 13 : 9781611861464

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2014

Synopsis

A monster stalks the earth—a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by a light that comes from the future: the Keynesian crisis of expectations. It is this same light that causes the world’s leaders to tremble before the beast. They tremble, Jean-Pierre Dupuy says, because they have lost faith in the future. What Dupuy calls Economy has degenerated today into a mad spectacle of unrestrained consumption and speculation. But in its positive form—a truly political economy in which politics, not economics, is predominant—Economy creates not only a sense of trust and confidence but also a belief in the open-endedness of the future without which capitalism cannot function. In this devastating and counterintuitive indictment of the hegemonic pretensions of neoclassical economic theory, Dupuy argues that the immutable and eternal decision of God has been replaced with the unpredictable and capricious judgment of the crowd. The future of mankind will therefore depend on whether it can see through the blindness of orthodox economic thinking.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique, Paris.

MALCOLM DEBEVOISE is a three-time winner of the French-American Foundation Prize for nonfiction and has translated more than forty works from French and Italian in all branches of scholarship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611861462
• ISBN 13: 9781611861464
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
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