The Age of Post-Rationality: Limits of Economic Reasoning in the 21st Century

by Val Colic-Peisker and Adrian Flitney

Book Overview

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has become an ideological black hole whose gravitational pull allows no public debate or policy to escape. Political leaders of all creeds are held in its orbit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811348421
• ISBN13: 9789811348426
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"