Beschreibung:
The presumed sovereignty of individuals and the facilitating powers of the markets have generated a universal and ethically neutral conception of both social and economic organisation. This ground-breaking text re-examines the purpose of society and the role of economics in it, arguing that the absence of a beneficial natural order calls for the role of the collective in social and economic life to be revisited. Drawing on some key figures marking milestones in the evolution of social and economic thinking, the author offers a critique of mainstream economics as a way of thinking and as a provider of guiding principles for economic and social organisation.
1. An Illusion of Order.- 2. The Power of Beliefs: The Organisational Principles of Economics' Paradigmatic Core.- 3. A Sense of Irrelevance.- 4. On Freedom and Justice: A Note Pertaining to Economics' Liberal Connection.- 5. On Human Sociality I.- 6. Human Sociality II: Intrinsic Sociality, Self-interest and Social Organisation.- 7.The Conception of the Individual in Modern Economic Analysis.- 8.The Classical Alternative