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This book draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition.

Examines the privatization of New York City's Central Park. This book highlights the immense theoretical and political issues involved in radically rethinking privatization in both the municipal and global contexts.

This book exlores the debates concerning the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world.

Utilising a conceptual approach based on the Polanyian concept of 'embeddedness', this book argues that the links between economic theory, neo-liberalism, and the current regime of sustainable development, have rendered 'sustainability' a discursive frame in the service of economic rather than ecological goals.

Talks about the significance of everyday economic practices to development policymaking. This book presents an argument that the normative content of epistemological frameworks provides us with ways to conceptualize economic development as other than industrialization, urbanization and environmental degradation as experienced by the West.

How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Using the case study of the Broadway musicians' union, the author shows how unions can facilitate a class transformation that increases workers' control over their working conditions and lets them make the changes needed to improve their lives.

Makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers.

Offers a fresh perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries. The author argues that heightened international competition has forced Chilean firms to drop their prices to retain market share, lowering profits.

This book offers a new critique of post-Marxism, offering a careful reading of the works of influential thinkers, Ernesto Laclau and Etienne Balibar and discussing its relative successes and failures.

This book draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity as a break from neoclassicism, this book offers a careful genealogy of many of the new concepts and approaches - including evolutionary game theory, experimental economics and behavioural economics - and reads their elaboration as part of the restoration of the theoretical humanist core of the tradition.

This book offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, but much attention is also given to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. Strategies examined include working from inside economics, politics and other social science departments, and in establishing dedicated sectors of political economy. Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide movement of students pushing for greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, and generally gain a fuller sense of the nature and direction of contemporary economics.