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Decolonizing Economics - Carolina Alves, Devika Dutt, Surbhi Kesar, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Decolonizing Economics

An Introduction
Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2025
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4547-6 (ISBN)
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Is economics a neutral scientific field, or is it riddled with eurocentric biases that stem from its origins in the development of capitalism, colonialism, and slavery?

This book makes the case that economics cannot extricate itself from its highly problematic imperial context without a rigorous process of decolonization, which must involve questioning and re-assessing the development of the field and how it came to be represented as a universal and objective science. In doing so, argue the authors, we can challenge the existing intellectual hierarchies and show that the field as it stands now has become ill-equipped to tackle the critical questions of our time, such as structural racism, environmental crisis, informal labour relations and the role of power in shaping economic outcomes. A decolonized economics can help us pioneer alternative – and better – ways of understanding economic questions by introducing key interventions by non-Western thinkers and non-eurocentric theories.

This is a critical guide for anyone intellectually curious to understand how economics can be decolonized and what can be learned from a decolonized economics.

Devika Dutt is Lecturer in Development Economics at King’s College London. Carolina Alves is Associate Professor in Economics at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London, and a Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Surbhi Kesar is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS, University of London. Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is Senior Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London.

Prologue: Why this book? Why now?

Part I: Eurocentrism in Economics
1: Introduction
2: The Foundations of a Eurocentric Discipline
3: Colonization of the Discipline: From Political Economy to Contemporary Economics
4: Development Economics: A Failed Attempt to Break from Colonial Roots

Part II: Decolonizing Economics
5: Heterodox Economics and the Decolonization Agenda
6: Towards a Decolonization Agenda
7: Exploring the decolonization agenda
8: What Is to Be Done?
9: Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Decolonizing the Curriculum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-5095-4547-6 / 1509545476
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-4547-6 / 9781509545476
Zustand Neuware
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