Beschreibung:
Christian Arnsperger is currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Belgian National Science Foundation (F.R.S.-FNRS) and a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. He is the author of Critical Political Economy, published by Routledge in 2008.
In his new book, Christian Arnsperger offers a philosophical critique of neoclassical and post-neoclassical economics and offers a forward-looking, constructive alternative, here named 'full-spectrum' economics.
Foreword Ken Wilber 1. Introduction: Why economics should go "full spectrum" Part I: The broadness of knowledge 2. The structure of economic knowledge 3. An Integral approach: The four quadrants of reality Part II: Neoclassical reductionism 4. Individualism, intrumentalism, and equilibrium 5. The political philosophy of macro-management Part III: Post-neoclassical reductionism 6. Game theory and strategic interaction 7. Complexity economics and "out-of-equilibrium" systems 8. Behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and the experimental approach Part IV: Beyond reductionism: The quest for Full-Spectrum Economics 9. Mainstream economics: A full-spectrum critique 10. Full-Spectrum Economics: A first perspective 11. Paradigms, quadrants, and levels: The toolbox of Full-Spectrum Economics 12. Full-Spectrum Economics