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Tue Nov 30 08:35:11 CET 2010

check out the detailed ToC, fascinating book,

Michel

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From: Trent Schroyer <tschroye at warwick.net>
Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: BEYOND WESTERN ECONOMICS: outline and blurb
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

BEYOND WESTERN ECONOMICS: REMEMBERING OTHER ECONOMIC CULTURES
By Trent Schroyer

Table of Contents

Introduction: Western Certitudes about Economic Freedom
1. The Fallacy of Economism
2. Fallacies of Western Economistic World View
3. Paths Beyond Western Individualism
4. Multiple Economic Cultures - Survey of Contents
5. Origins of this Inquiry.

Part I: Critical Histories of Western Economics
Chapter 1 Idealization of the Self Regulating Market
1.1 The Emergence of the Economic Culture of Commercial Civil Society
1.2     The Watershed of the Scottish Enlightenment
1.3     Idealizations of Self-Preservation versus Dedication
1.4     Idealization of Civilizing Mission of Wealth Creating Market Society
1.5     Evolutionary Empiricism: Economic Culture as Spontaneous
Co-ordination
1.6     Internal Colonization's of Spontaneous Orders and the Problem of
Social Freedom

Chapter 2 Substantive Economics and the Abstractions of Economism
2.1 Disembedding of the Market and the Utopian Liberal Creed
2.2 Polanyi's Socio-Cultural Account of the Source of Human Misery
2.3 Economism Versus Substantive Social Economics
2.4 Substantive Economics and Western Market Industrial Formations
2.5 Economic Cultures Beyond Developmentalism
2.6 On Scarcity: The Charter Myth of Modernity

Chapter 3 Idealizations of Utopian Capitalism
3.1 Idealizations of Utopian Capitalism and the Contemporary World
3.2 Idealization of Maximizing Rationality and  Entrepreneurial Freedom
3.3 Idealization of Financial De-regulation
3.4 Idealization of Scientific Certitudes & Risk Assessments as the Basis of
Economic Decisions
3.5 Idealization of Economic Development as Means of Poverty Eradication
3.6 Idealization of Globalizing Capitalism as Civilizing and 'Peace Keeping"

Part II Critical Traditionalist Cultural Visions
Chapter 4 Illich's Genealogy of Modern Certitudes
4.1 Who Was ivan Illich ?
4.2 Illich's Regenerative Methodologies
4.3 Ecclesiology as  Critical Regeneration Theory
4.4 Origins of Modernity in Perversions of Roman Church 'Reforms'
4.5 From Mother Church to Mother State
4.6 Cultural Colonization of Vernacular Speech
4.7 Perversions of the Contingency Axiom that 'Reformed' the Church
4. 8 New Fears and New Psycho-Spiritual Pathologies
4.9 Disembodiments of Modern Sensibility
4.10 Creating Vernacular Free Spaces
4.11 Convivial Living as Post-Industrial Society Practice
4.12 Loss of Vernacular Gender as Condition for Economism
4.13 Truth-Seeking Presupposes Friendship: Illich and Gandhi

Chapter 5 Gandhi's Truth Testing and India Today
5.1 From Illich to Gandhi
5.2 Ongoing Internal Colonization of Indian Governance
5.3 Diverse Perspectives on Indian Culture
5.4 Gandhi's Truth Experiments and the Harmony of Human Pursuits
5.5. Swaraj, or Self Rule: The Key to the Regeneration of India?
5.6 Testing Gandhianism: Romantic Idealism or Seminal Vision?
5.7 Spiritualizing Wealth & Economics : On Gandhian Economics
5.8 Realities of the Indian Informal Sector
5.9 An Alternative Strategy to Transform Rural Communities

Part III: Alternative Economies
Chapter 6 Foundations of  Economic Cultures
6.1 Secularization and Remembrance of 'the Other West'
6.2 Economist Reductions of Reciprocity and Gifting
6.3 The Logic of Gifts Beyond Economism
6.4 From Moral Economy to a more Reflexive Individualism
6.5 Social Sharing and Commons Based Peer Production
6.6 Co-Operative Economies: Yesterday and Today
6.7 Sustaining Traditional Art-Craft-Body Knowledge Systems

Chapter 7 Substantive Economic Cultures
7.1 Better Indicators to the Inseparability of Ecology and Equity
7.2 Customs in Common and the Wisdom of Commons
7.3 Localizing Cultural Affirmations in a Globalizing World
7.4 The Superiority of Peasant, or Local Agriculture :An Ongoing Truth
7.5 Capacity Building in Active Communities

Chapter 8 Social Learning for People's Economies
8.1 Participatory Learning for People's Economies: The Grameen Bank
     and Hernando de Soto's Solution
8.2 City Regions and Going Local
8.3 Strengthening Local Economies via  Alternative Financial
     Institutions
8. 4 Grass Roots Up Participatory Financial Forms
8.5 Globalizing Anti-Globalization Economies: Solidarity Economics,
     Economic Democracy and Fair Trade
8.6 Geonomics with Earth Rights and Tax Shift

Appendix #1 The Medieval Origins of Instrumental Reason
Bibliography

http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/Beyond-Western-Economics-isbn9780415776974

BEYOND WESTERN ECONOMICS: REMEMBERING OTHER ECONOMIC CULTURES
By Trent Schroyer

How did we reach the point of accepting western economics as central to our
understanding of human nature, history, culture and social policy formation?
Answering this question systematically exposes the fallacy of economism and
releases many social economic alternatives now eclipsed by market
fundamentalism.

This fascinating book remembers the 'other west' as rooted in common sense
and love of community, and shows how it became buried underneath modern
idealizations of certainty and wealth creation, revealing that co-operative
economies always accompanied, as counter currents, historical tides of
capitalism. Combining intellectual history with contemporary events, Trent
Schroyer offers a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal
policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates
theoretically, at the level the philosophy of science, and through case
studies of globalization and world events.

The book reconstructs two critical traditionalist visions that go far beyond
critiques of western economism and conceive the human condition very
differently. The practices and insights of Ivan Illich and Mahatma Gandhi
are used to define limits of 'development'  that differ substantially from
the dominant economic logics for the westernization of the world.

Beyond Western Economics surveys sustainable alternatives that regenerate
ecological assets, provide models for community and regional capacity
building, innovate ways to deepen local economies, protect public assets to
secure the poor and organize grass-roots-up financial autonomy. The end of
market fundamentalism means taking seriously the many existing and viable
alternatives; this is a beginning for other human futures. The book focuses
on alternative economic cultures as sources for empowerment; an imperative
after the implosion of neo-liberal economics in 2008.

Cutting across a wide variety of disciplines, the book is likely to appeal
to the general reader, researchers and students in Environmental Studies,
Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability Studies, Comparative
Development, Ecological Economics and Religious Studies.

ORDER FROM:
>Taylor and Francis Group
>2 Park Square, Milton Park
Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
http://www.routl

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