Contemporary critiques of political economy : mapping alternative planetary futures

"This book analyses contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multi-pronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, moral anthropology, and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society, the dialogue between Karl Marx and Carl Gustav Jung, a critical sociology of morality and property relations, moral and political economy of the Indigenous peoples and a critique of modern civilization, economic evaluation, as well as alternative traditions of thinking in Marx, Thoreau, Gandhi, J.C. Kumarappa, Rammanohar Lohia, B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narain. A unique transdisciplinary text, the book brings together authors and approaches from both the Global North and South. It will be indispensable to students, research scholars and teachers of humanities and social sciences in such fields as economics, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and development studies"-- Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Preface List of Contributors Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy: An Introduction and an Invitation Part I Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy Chapter 1 Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Creative Planetary Futures: Political Economy, Moral Economy, Moral Sociology, Spiritual Ecology, and Beyond Chapter 2 Moral Sociology and the Marxist-Humanist Critique of Property: Toward a Critical Social Psychology of Morality Chapter 3 Ensouling the Critique of Political Economy: From Marx and Jung to Degrowth Chapter 4 From Gift to Debt: Rethinking Political Economy from a Radical Anthropological and Indigenous Perspective Part II Further Engagement with Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy Chapter 5 Economic (E)valuation: Household and catallaxy Chapter 6 Lands of Plenty, Realms of Freedom: Imagining an Automatic Life Chapter 7 Self, Pathogen, and Climate: Rethinking Political Economy Today Chapter 8 India’s Crisis of Development Chapter 9 A Relational Approach to Political Economy: Making New Sense of What We Know, Towards a Society of Living Chapter 10 Creative Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Moral Economy: Cooperative Settlement and Utopian Community Projects as Modes of Conviviality for Thoreau, Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Gandhi Chapter 11 Broken But Not Useless: Revisiting Marx’s Workshop and a New Ecology of Hope Chapter 12 Rethinking and Transforming Critiques of Political Economy: Gandhi-Kumarappa Pathways Chapter 13 International Political Economy at the Crossroads: Questions of World Order and Other Pressing Issues of International Politics Chapter 14 Deconstructing/Reconstructing Liberal World Order for the 21st Century Afterword: On the Very Form of Critique Index This book analyzes contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multipronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, moral anthropology, and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society, the dialogue between Karl Marx and Carl Gustav Jung, a critical sociology of morality and property relations, moral and political economy of the Indigenous peoples and a critique of modern civilization, economic evaluation, as well as alternative traditions of thinking in Marx, Thoreau, Gandhi, J.C. Kumarappa, Rammanohar Lohia, B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narain. A unique transdisciplinary text, the book brings together authors and approaches from both the Global North and South. It will be indispensable to students, research scholars and teachers of humanities and social sciences in such fields as economics, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and development studies.