Arnsperger C. Full-Spectrum Economics: toward an inclusive and emancipatory social science. - London; New York: Routledge, 2010. - xxi, 277 p. - (Routledge frontiers of political economy; 125). - Bibliogr.: p.253-262. - Ind.: p.263-277. - ISBN 978-0-415-55547-0  Место хранения:   022 | Институт экономики и организации промышленного производства | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

List of illustrations ......................................... xvi Foreword ..................................................... xvii Acknowledgments ............................................... xxi 1 Introduction: why economics should go "full spectrum" ........ 1 What is a "full spectrum?" ................................... 2 A personal journey ........................................... 5 Moving out of our "deep sleep" mode .......................... 9 A new articulation .......................................... 11 What lies ahead ............................................. 12 PART I The broadness of knowledge ..................................... 17 2 The structure of economic knowledge ......................... 19 What is economics? .......................................... 19 Paradigms are inevitable .................................... 21 First-person perspectives are inevitable .................... 24 3 An Integral approach: the four quadrants of reality ......... 28 A first look at the Integral approach ....................... 29 Exteriors: "the world of the terribly obvious " ............. 35 Interiors: consciousness and "the miracle called 'We'" ...... 38 Evolutionary and developmental dynamics ..................... 40 PART II Neoclassical reductionism 4 Individualism, instrumentalism, and equilibrium Neoclassical economics as a paradigm ........................ 45 A twofold reductionism ...................................... 53 Can we live without rationality and equilibrium? ............ 59 Can the neoclassical paradigm be falsified? ................. 63 5 The political philosophy of macro-management ................ 66 The knowledge interests underlying neoclassical economics ... 66 The issue of macro-management ............................... 76 Could you live in a neoclassical world? ..................... 86 PART III Post-neoclassical reductionism ................................. 91 6 Game theory and strategic interaction ....................... 93 Strategic rationality: a way out of reductionism? ........... 94 Nash equilibrium as "society's DNA" ........................ 102 The politics of noncooperative game theory ................. 110 7 Complexity economics and "out-of-equilibrium" systems ...... 116 The fundamental flaws of game theory ....................... 116 From contemplative to adaptive rationality ................. 119 Elements of complexity economics ........................... 126 Has true interactivity really been achieved? ............... 137 8 Behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and the experimental approach ...................................... 141 A new paradigm ............................................. 141 Behavioral economics: the return of the "recognizably human" ..................................................... 142 Neuroeconomics: scanning brains and solving problems ....... 151 Experimental economics: the lab is the answer .............. 156 PART IV Beyond reductionism: the quest for Full-Spectrum Economics .... 163 9 Mainstream economics: a full-spectrum critique ............. 165 Behaviorism and the illusion of affectivity ................ 165 Systems theory and the illusion of culture ................. 173 Douglass North's institutionalism: embracing the full spectrum? .................................................. 179 10 Full-Spectrum Economics: a first perspective ............... 185 Creating an economics of interiors? ........................ 185 Is our economic world a subjectless process? ............... 186 The reality-reinforcing power of post-neoclassical economics .................................................. 189 Toward Full-Spectrum Economics ............................. 193 11 Paradigms, quadrants, and levels: the toolbox of Full-Spectrum Economics .................................... 195 The three-level structure of paradigms ..................... 195 Horizontal interconnections ................................ 202 Vertical development and evolution ......................... 205 How does Full-Spectrum compare to post-neoclassical? ....... 214 Combining horizontal causalities and vertical dynamics ..... 216 The Integral field of reality .............................. 220 12 Full-Spectrum Economics .................................... 222 A meta-economics? .......................................... 222 A form of critical realism ................................. 224 Reductionism and the industrial bourgeoisie ................ 229 Eight methodologies ........................................ 233 The questions we (should) ask .............................. 236 Actualizing our hidden potentials .......................... 240 Integrating economics and spirituality ..................... 242 Toward a Full-Spectrum analysis of capitalism .............. 245 Notes ......................................................... 247 Bibliography .................................................. 253 Index ......................................................... 263