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Author:   Kenneth W. Stikkers (Southern Illinois University, USA) ,  Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
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9781138050303

ISBN 10:   113805030
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   25 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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I. The Crisis in Philosophical and Historical Perspective 1. Philosophy and the Crisis of Economic Science, by Kenneth W. Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA) 2. On the Shadow and the Substance: Adam Smith, John Dewey, and the Great Recession, by Michael Schleeter (Pacific Lutheran University, USA) 3. John Dewey: A Philosophy for Times of Crisis, by Matteo Santarelli (Unversity of Molise, Italy) II. The Narrative and Rhetoric of ‘Crisis’ 4. Neopragmatist Ethnocentric Rhetoric on Economic Crisis: Richard Rorty and Social Amelioration by Redescription, by Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (Opole University, Poland) 5. If Philosophers Are So Smart: A Metaphor of ‘Global Economic Crisis’, by Maja Niestrόj (Opole University, Poland) III. The Economy of Happiness and Desire 6. Mead's Bio-Social Theory of the Self and the Economics of Happiness, for a Pragmatist Philosophy of Economics, by Guido Baggio (Pontifical Salisian University, Rome, Italy) 7. The Hegemony of Finance: Recognition and the Capture of Desire, by Henry Kelly (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 8. Deep Capture: The Hidden Role of Rationalizations, Psychology, and Corporate Law, and What Philosophy Can Do about It, by Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland) IV. The Efficiency of Markets 9. Pragmatic Theory of Information and the Efficient Market Hypothesis: From Philosophical Ideas to Traders' Behaviour Analyses, by Agnieszka Hensoldt (Opole University, Poland) 10 The Relativity of Transaction Costs, by Liu Mu (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) and Kenneth W. Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA) V. Looking Beyond the Crisis 11. A Pragmatist Model of Transforming Urban Inequalities: Creating Livable Cities in a Time of Crisis, by David W. Woods (New York University, USA) 12. Deepening Piketty’s Pragmatism: Hopeful Leadings for Democratic Political Economy, by Judith Green (Fordham University, USA)

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Kenneth W. Stikkers is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński teaches contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, cultural anthropology, Polish philosophy, and American philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland.

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