Political Economy as Theodicy

Progress, Suffering and Denial
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-62573-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.

This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic thought – primarily Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, W. Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Bates Clark. Theodicy is a constitutive element of an international political economy (IPE) that often disavows moral evil, while it conversely redefines such evil as an actual good within economic life. Beginning with the Enlightenment thinkers and continuing through to the modern neoclasscial economists, this book traces the initial emergence of a natural theological basis for political economic thinking and concludes with a discussion of its application in modern IPE. Relying upon a postcolonial framework, the author seeks to provincialize economics, creating space for alternative modes of being and doing.

This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of IPE, political theology, international relations and postcolonial studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaney, David L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Modernity, Theological Metaphysics and Theodicy 2. Harmony/Denial in Smith’s Theodicy 3. Spontaneous Order/Domination in Mandeville and Hume 4. Creation’s ‘Partial Evil’ and Malthus’ Two Anti-Utopian Messages  Interlude: Darwin and Spencer  5. Jevons’ Economic Science as Natural Theology 6. Marshall’s Theodicy ‘Once Removed’ 7. Providence, Fairness and Progress in Clark’s Marginal Productivity Theory 8. Denial in Neoclassical Economics and IPE 9. Beyond Theodicy?

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Blaney is G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. He writes on the political and social theory of international relations and global political economy. His three earlier books (with Naeem Inayatullah), International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004), Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010) and Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism: A Critique of Liberal IPE and Global Capitalism (2021), center on culture and political economy and the limits of liberal IPE. With Arlene B. Tickner, he has edited Thinking International Relations Differently (2012) and Claiming the International (2013).