Economics as Rhetoric
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Economics as Rhetoric

The Thought of Bernard Maris

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Economics as Rhetoric

The Thought of Bernard Maris

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About This Book

Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He remains one of the most original intellectuals of contemporary France, but despite being a uniquely original heterodox thinker, his international reputation has been compromised by the fact that his writings are inaccessible to non-French speakers. This book remedies that.

By providing an overview of Bernard Maris' life and intellectual trajectory as well as an English translation of an anthology of his most relevant writings, this volume provides the international audience – for the first time ever – the chance to know and understand the contribution of this major heterodox economist. An outstanding and atypical figure in economic thought and a virulent critic of mainstream dominant economics, he was also an all-round actor and thinker of his time. Through rigorous reasoning, he questioned the notion of well-being, which, he argued, is too often conflated with having more. Enslavement by work, or the endless destructive accumulation of natural wealth, is also inherent to the capitalist system. Probably his most original contribution is his epistemological reflection on the very nature of economics and his appraisal of this discipline as a form of rhetoric.

This book will be of great interest to readers in heterodox economics, economic methodology, epistemology, and French literature and culture more broadly.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040099520
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic History
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: Bernard Maris, the myth of scientific economics
  11. 1 Choosing heterodoxy
  12. 2 Expert discourse, scholarly discourse: a discipline subjected to power (the myth of well-being)
  13. 3 A post-Keynesian-Marxian-Freudian conventionalist
  14. 4 The characteristics of capitalism/the future of capitalism
  15. 5 Concluding chapter: beyond capitalism, for humanistic economics
  16. Index