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Inequality, Stability, and Cycles of Crisis
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739169728
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
334
Autor:
Niccolo Leo Caldararo
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
By bringing together economic anthropology, ecology, and culture history, The Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems not only proposes a new model of human social evolution, but equally importantly creates a methodology for speaking to, and against, our present economic and environmental situation.
Today we live in what Ulrich Beck has aptly characterized as a “risk society” shaped by intensifying crises outside of our control and seemingly outside of our comprehension. The master narrative that was supposed to lead us to secular salvation—economics—has proved to be a large part of the problem rather than the much anticipated solution. In The Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems, Niccolo Caldararo offers a much more radical and challenging answer: that the fundamental assumptions on which the modern “science” of economics has been erected are false, and that it is through the medium of anthropology, particularly the relatively neglected field of economic anthropology, that an alternative and sound basis for both the understanding of economic behavior and for the shaping of economic futures can be constructed. Caldararo not only challenges the foundational assumptions of conventional economic theory, but situates economic behavior (something quite different and universal amongst human beings) in both a historical and an ecological context. Contemporary discussions of “sustainability,” especially in the field of development studies, have oddly neglected to look to anthropology. Economic anthropology, is the repository of a vast store of wisdom both about actual alternative and workable economic systems and about their evolution. By drawing on this source, Caldararo builds a model of the evolution of human economies which stir up substantial debate, shows how economic anthropology provides a tool for the interrogation of economic theory, and ties economics to ecology. It has been the rupture of this fundamental relationship that lies at the basis of much of our present crisis and the unsustainable economic patterns that humans have created. By bringing together in a new configuration economic anthropology, ecology, and culture history, Caldararo not only proposes a new model of human social evolution, but equally importantly creates a methodology for speaking to, and against, our present economic and environmental situation.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Anthropology and Economics: A Review
Chapter 1: Anthropology and the Cosmology of Modern Economics
Chapter 2: Wants, Needs, and the Question of Surplus versus Wealth
Chapter 3: Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle
Chapter 4: Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life & Standard of Living
Part II: Introduction to Hominid Economics
Chapter 6: Introduction
Chapter 7: Forest Fires, Origins, and Myths
Chapter 8: Traditional Peoples and Fire
Chapter 9: Climate and Fire, Assessing Time’s Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire
Chapter 10: Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society
Chapter 11: The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens
Chapter 12: Co-evolutionary Processes & Environmental Exploitation
Chapter 13: Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-adapted Species vs ‘Old Growth’
Chapter 14: Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire Histories, and Thermal Alteration
Chapter 15: Insects, Biomass Reduction, and Pesticides
Chapter 16: Conclusion: Forests and the Future Man
Part III: Cycles of Growth & Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies
Chapter 17: Introduction
Chapter 18: The Problem of Population & the Nature of Human Society
Chapter 19: Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example
Chapter 20: The Evolution of Modern Japan and its Transformation
Part IV: The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View
Chapter 21: The Credit Crisis of 2008 to 201?
Chapter 22: Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work
Chapter 23: Fundamentalism versus Globalism
Part V: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Anthropology and Economics: A Review
Chapter 1: Anthropology and the Cosmology of Modern Economics
Chapter 2: Wants, Needs, and the Question of Surplus versus Wealth
Chapter 3: Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle
Chapter 4: Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life & Standard of Living
Part II: Introduction to Hominid Economics
Chapter 6: Introduction
Chapter 7: Forest Fires, Origins, and Myths
Chapter 8: Traditional Peoples and Fire
Chapter 9: Climate and Fire, Assessing Time’s Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire
Chapter 10: Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society
Chapter 11: The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens
Chapter 12: Co-evolutionary Processes & Environmental Exploitation
Chapter 13: Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-adapted Species vs ‘Old Growth’
Chapter 14: Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire Histories, and Thermal Alteration
Chapter 15: Insects, Biomass Reduction, and Pesticides
Chapter 16: Conclusion: Forests and the Future Man
Part III: Cycles of Growth & Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies
Chapter 17: Introduction
Chapter 18: The Problem of Population & the Nature of Human Society
Chapter 19: Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example
Chapter 20: The Evolution of Modern Japan and its Transformation
Part IV: The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View
Chapter 21: The Credit Crisis of 2008 to 201?
Chapter 22: Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work
Chapter 23: Fundamentalism versus Globalism
Part V: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author