The End of Individualism and the Economy: Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community

ISBN-13: 9781032174686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Ann E. Davis

Opis

Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years. The End of Individualism and the Economy traces the origins of “the individual” in history, philosophy, economics and social science.

Spis treści

(1) The Individual as a Key Term (2) Property and Reification (3) The Public/Private Divide (4) The Shaping of the Modern Liberal State (5) The Economics of “Autophagy”: Implications of the Economy as “Machine” (6) Methods of Social Science (7) “Unique Individuals” (8) The Property Paradigm (9) Contradictions (10) Backlash (11) Alternatives (12) Conclusions

O autorze

Ann E. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College, USA, and author of Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge, 2017).