Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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Economics
New New
The Delusions of Economics
The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous
Science
Gilbert Rist
The Delusions of Economics
presents a radical critique of
neoclassical economics. Rather
than entering into existing debates
between different orthodoxies,
Gilbert Rist explores the
circumstances that prevailed when
economics was ‘invented’ and that
helped to construct it as a science.
Rist demonstrates how these
presuppositions are either obsolete
or just plain wrong, and that traditional economics is
largely based on irrational convictions. Provocative and
original, this essential book provides incontrovertible
proof that the construction of a new economic paradigm –
pluralistic, ecologically compatible, and grounded in reality
– is now a necessity.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 211 pp
ISBN: 9781848139220: RM94.00 / S$40.85
New
How Wall Street Fleeced America
Privatized Banking, Government Collusion
and Class War
Stephan Lendman
“This book digs deeply into many
of the contributing parts of what
is wrong with the financial system
of America and the world today.
Stephen Lendman has a great gift
for writing and research and all
his readers are the beneficiaries.”
– Bob Chapman, Editor of the
International Forecaster
“…a brilliant, passionate, and
humane analysis of the current
economic disarray in which we now live…this book
should be required reading in business schools as well
as Congress.” – Stjepang G.Mestrovic, Professor of
Sociology, Texas A&M University
Publisher: Clarity Press
2011: 190 pp
ISBN: 9780983353942: RM63.00 / S$27.40
Debunking Economics
The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
Steve Keen
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Catalogue 2012
Debunking Economics exposes what a
minority of economist have long known
and many of the rest of us have long
suspected: that economic theory is not
only unpalatable, but also plain wrong.
When the first edition was published in
2001, economists basked in the limelight
of a seemingly invincible market economy.
But the economy’s performance, as Steve Keen argued,
had nothing to do with neoclassical economic theory
and gave policy-makers the false confidence to begin to
dismantle the very institutions designed to limit market
instability. That instability exploded with the devastating
financial crisis of 2007, and now haunts the global economy
with the prospect of another Depression. In this updated
and expanded edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique
of conventional economic theory whilst explaining what
mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why
it is proving to be done to end it. Essential for anyone who
has ever doubted the advice or reasoning of economists,
Debunking Economics is a signpost to a better future.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 477 pp
ISBN: 9781848139923: RM105.00 / S$45.65
New
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools
Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Robert R. Locke & J.-C. Spender
Confronting Managerialism offers
a scathing critique of the crippling
influence of neoclassical economics
and modern finance on business school
teaching and management practice. It
shows how business managers, once
well regarded as custodians of the
economic engine driving growth and
social progress, now seem more like the
rapacious “robber barons” of the 1880s. In effect,
responsible management has given way to managerialism,
whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from
any ethical considerations now call the shots, throwing
the lives of the rest of us out of balance. Confronting
Managerialism is a unique, topical, and controversial look
at a subject that impacts us all.
Publisher: Zed Books
2011: 217 pp
ISBN: 9781780320717: RM72.00 / S$31.30