Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy

This book analyses contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices.

This book analyzes contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multipronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, moral anthropology, and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society, the dialogue between Karl Marx and Carl Gustav Jung, a critical sociology of morality and property relations, moral and political economy of the Indigenous peoples and a critique of modern civilization, economic evaluation, as well as alternative traditions of thinking in Marx, Thoreau, Gandhi, J.C. Kumarappa, Rammanohar Lohia, B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narain. A unique transdisciplinary text, the book brings together authors and approaches from both the Global North and South. It will be indispensable to students, research scholars and teachers of humanities and social sciences in such fields as economics, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and development studies.

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Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Dr. Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures (editor, 2019); Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor, 2022); The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023); and Social Healing (2023).

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Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy: An Introduction and an Invitation - Ananta Kumar Giri **Part I:Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy1. Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Alternative Planetary Futures: Political Economy, Moral Economy, Moral Sociology, Spiritual Ecology and Beyond- Ananta Kumar Giri 2. Moral Sociology and the Marxist-Humanist Critique of Property: Toward a Critical Social-Psychology of Morality- Robert Nonomura 3. Ensouling the Critique of Political Economy: From Marx and Jung to Degrowth - Julien-François Gerber 4. From Gift to Debt: Rethinking Political Economy from a Radical Anthropological and Indigenous Perspective- Felix Padel Part II:Further Engagement with Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy5. Economic (e)valuation: household and catallaxy- Andrew Sayer 6. Lands of Plenty, Realms of Freedom: Imagining An Automatic Life- Ronald Stade 7. Self, Pathogen and Climate: Rethinking Political Economy Today- Khirod Chandra Moharana 8. India's Crisis of Development: A Political Economy Critique and Beyond- Pulin Nayak 9. A Relational Approach to Political Economy: Making Sense of What We Know, Towards a Society of Living - Carlos Alvarez Pereira 10. Creative Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Moral Economy: Cooperative Settlement and Utopian Community Projects as Modes of Conviviality for Thoreau, Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Gandhi- Christian Bartolf, Dominique Miething, Vishnu Varatharajan 11. Broken but Not Useless: Revisiting Marx's Workshop and a New Ecology of Hope- Abhijeet Paul 12. Rethinking and Transforming Critiques of Political Economy: Gandhi - Kumarappa Pathways - Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph 13. International Political Economy at the Crossroads: Questions of World Order and Other Pressing Issues of International Politics - Suman Bagisha 14.** Deconstructing/Reconstructing Liberal World Order for the 21st Century - Johannes D Schmidt. Index