David L Blaney

Political Economy as Theodicy

Progress, Suffering and Denial

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Produktbeschreibung

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032625737
• ISBN-10: 1032625732
• Artikelnr.: 69484991

Autorenporträt

David L. Blaney is G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. He writes on the political and social theory of international relations and global political economy. His three earlier books (with Naeem Inayatullah), International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004), Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010) and Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism: A Critique of Liberal IPE and Global Capitalism (2021), center on culture and political economy and the limits of liberal IPE. With Arlene B. Tickner, he has edited Thinking International Relations Differently (2012) and Claiming the International (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modernity, Theological Metaphysics and Theodicy 2. Harmony/Denial in
Smith's Theodicy 3. Spontaneous Order/Domination in Mandeville and Hume 4.
Creation's 'Partial Evil' and Malthus' Two Anti-Utopian Messages
Interlude: Darwin and Spencer 5. Jevons' Economic Science as Natural
Theology 6. Marshall's Theodicy 'Once Removed' 7. Providence, Fairness and
Progress in Clark's Marginal Productivity Theory 8. Denial in Neoclassical
Economics and IPE 9. Beyond Theodicy?