Decolonizing Economics
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Decolonizing Economics

An Introduction

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Decolonizing Economics

An Introduction

About this book

Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.

Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives. Through such scholarship, we can gain an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation, colonialism, and racialization.

 

The author order is randomized. All authors contributed equally to the book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Series Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Prologue: Why this book? Why now?
  8. Part I: Eurocentrism in Economics
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 The Foundations of a Eurocentric Discipline
  11. 3 Colonization of the Discipline: From Political Economy to Contemporary Economics
  12. 4 Development Economics: A Failed Attempt to Break from Colonial Roots
  13. Part II: Decolonizing Economics
  14. 5 Heterodox Economics and the Decolonization Agenda
  15. 6 Toward a Decolonization Agenda
  16. 7 Exploring the Decolonization Agenda
  17. 8 What Is to Be Done?
  18. 9 Conclusion
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. End User License Agreement