Economics as Social Science: Economics Imperialism and the Challenge of Interdisciplinary 9781138909298, 1138909297, 9781315694047, 1315694042
There is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of
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ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction: origins, evolution and metamorphoses of economics imperialism, or the need for an interdisciplinary research programme on human behaviour PART I: At the roots of economics imperialism: classical and neoclassical economics and the issue of primitive societies 1 The distant origins of economics imperialism: classical economists and primitive societies 1.1 Travellers, philosophers and the savages 1.2 Adam Smith: a conjectural primitive economy, or the model of the "early and rude state of society" 1.3 In "the realm of necessity": Karl Marx's theory of pre-capitalist societies 2 Economics imperialism revealed: neoclassical economists and primitive man 2.1 Occupy anthropology: Lionel Robbins, Raymond Firth and the formalist school 2.2 Beyond the formalist approach: Clifford Geertz's and Richard Posner's informational approach for peasant and primitive societies 2.3 Beyond the formalist approach: Jack Hirshleifer's bioeconomics and the human behavioural ecology of primitive economies 3 Primitive societies in the interpretation of classical and neoclassical economics: a common model PART II: Economics and the challenge of primitive societies: anthropological non-formalist approaches 4 The primitive system of gift exchange discovered: Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don 4.1 Anthropologists and 'real' primitive economies 4.2 Mauss's Essai sur le don 4.3 Mauss's critique of the homo oeconomicus 5 The substantivist perspective on the role of the economy in societies: Karl Polanyi's and Marshall Sahlins's contributions 5.1 Karl Polanyi's substantivism 5.2 Marshall Sahlins's neo-substantivism 5.3 The debate on Stone Age Economics in the 1980s and 1990s 6 The intelligibility of primitive economic organization: Sahlins, Levi-Strauss and Clastres on Mauss's political philosophy 6.1 Claude Levi-Strauss and Marshall Sahlins on the primitive social contract 6.2 Pierre Clastres on the relationship between war and gift exchange in societies "against the state" 6.3 Primitive economic organization in the light of Mauss's political philosophy PART III: The problem of the 'other': economics and unselfish behaviour 7 Economics on altruism, giving and reciprocity 7.1 From philanthropy to altruism 7.2 Richard Titmuss's The Gift Relationship and economists' embarrassment 7.3 Mainstream economics and the gift 7.4 The economics of reciprocity A note on the origins of human cooperation: Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis on primitive societies 8 A unified framework for behavioural sciences? On Herbert Gintis's proposal 8.1 How to remedy the "scandalous" pluralism of social sciences 8.2 The socio(bio)logy of homo socialis PART IV: The theoretical and practical relevance of Mauss's gift to the development of a non-imperialist economics 9 The gift in social sciences 9.1 Jacques Derrida's philosophy of the impossibility of the (modern) gift 9.2 Alvin Gouldner's sociology: the norm of reciprocity and the principle of 'something for nothing' 9.3 On Mauss again: anthropology in the 1980s and 1990s 10 Mauss's research programme revisited: the Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (MAUSS) 10.1 Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism 10.2 The gift as a new paradigm for social sciences 11 A new Maussian perspective in economics 11.1 On complexity and economics 11.2 Back to the future with Mauss Conclusions: the myth of economics imperialism and the possibility of a non-imperialist economics Bibliography Index
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