Arturo Hermann

The Systemic Nature of the Economic Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

The perspectives of heterodox economics and psychoanalysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The current financial crisis is characterised by high levels of inequality, rampant unemployment, economic and social insecurity and environmental decay. This book draws together approaches from heterodox economics and psychoanalysis and adopts a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach to the study of these phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317627609
• Artikelnr.: 42554184

Autorenporträt

Arturo Hermann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Psychoanalytic Approach and its Potential for a Better Understanding
of Economic and Social Phenomena 1. The Perspective of Psychoanalysis: An
Outline 2. Implications for the Study of Economic and Social Phenomena 3.
Psychoanalysis and Social Change 4. Some Controversial Aspects of
Psychoanalysis II. The Perspective of Institutional Economics and its
Potential for a Better Understanding of Economic and Social Phenomena 5.
Institutional Economics: The Historical and Theoretical Framework 6.
Veblen's Evolutionary Perspective 7. Commons's Theory of Collective Action
8. The Decline of Institutional Economics in the post World War II Period
and the New Developments of Today III. The Institutional Analysis of the
Market and the Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Evolution 9. The Market
in the Heterodox Perspective 10. The Role of "Materialistic" and
Psychological Factors in Social Evolution IV. The Economic and
Psychological Aspect s of the Crisis of Today 11. The Role of Policy
Coordination in Structural Problems 12. Public Spending and Credit Creation
as the Drivers of Aggregate Demand 13. Economic and Psychological
Implications V. The Structural Transformation of Economic Systems and the
Social and Psychological Implications 14. The Structural Tendency of
Aggregate Demand To Lag Behind the Aggregate Supply of Full Employment 15.
The"Affluent Society" of John Kenneth Galbraith and Its Relevance for the
Problems of Today