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What narratives are underrepresented in the history of economic thought? How do economists account for freedom, justice, and democracy in non-Western cultures? How are ideas in non-English speaking countries disseminated? This book answers these critical questions with contributions by authors from underrepresented backgrounds within economics.Decolonial Narratives in Economics offers alternative perspectives to challenge mainstream rhetoric in economics that ignores the existence and significance of colonialism in knowledge production. Moving beyond monist narratives, authors engage in a pluralist conversation on ignored scholarships in the field that have theoretical and practical significance today. Expanding the scope of decoloniality in economics, the book questions coloniality as a research practice to better understand how it operates and to develop strategies to address the ethical issues associated with it. Ultimately, this book initiates a dialogue with authors who produce decolonial narratives within or about the nations and cultures that are underrepresented in economics.Decolonial Narratives in Economics is an essential read for students and scholars of development economics, economic history, and political, radical and feminist economies, as well as politics, sociology, philosophy and cultural and indigenous studies.

In 1936 John Maynard Keynes published a book that he believed would revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Although the book became the foundation of a particular approach to economic theorizing—later termed macroeconomics, in contrast to the microeconomics of the neoclassical school, which had just begun to dominate the discipline in the early decades of the 20th century—it can be argued that Keynes never achieved what Thomas Kuhn described as a scientific revolution: a true paradigm shift.This book not only revisits the debate on the ‘revolution that never was’ within a philosophy of science framework—one that clearly distinguishes between paradigmatic variations and paradigmatic alternatives, thus differentiating between economic orthodoxy and heterodoxy—but also argues that the ‘Keynesian revolution’ of the 1940s and 1950s was merely the orthodox response to ward off a genuine paradigm shift. This was made possible by the epistemological flexibility of the orthodox tradition on the one hand and, also, by the shortcomings in Keynes’s theorizing and methodological exposition. An alternative is presented that attempts to extend and supplement what Keynes called a ‘Monetary Theory of Production’ – offering links to modern discussions about financialisation and sustainability.The book will be of interest to all readers seeking alternatives to mainstream economics, advocating for a pluralistic approach to the discipline, and looking for a key to understanding the different strands of Post-Keynesianism.

Ausgehend von der Geschichte der europaischen Wahrungsintegration stellt Heise die Vor- und Nachteile einer Wahrungsunion vor und zeigt die mit einer gemeinsamen Wahrung verbundenen Bedingungen auf. Der Autor macht deutlich, dass die gemeinsame Wahrung auch neue Rahmenbedingungen fur die Tarif-, Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Steuerpolitik mit sich bringt.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird die Entwicklung nach der Reformphase deutscher Universitäten in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren, die im Zuge der Studentenbewegung eine Pluralisierung der Ökonomik anstoßen wollte, aufgearbeitet und die Gründe für die Marginalisierung alternativer ökonomischer Theorien offengelegt.

Um die Wirtschaftswissenschaft ist es schlecht bestellt: Sie hat sich auf einen Blickwinkel verengt, dessen Erklärungskraft nicht erst in der Weltfinanzkrise nach 2007 heftig in Frage gestellt wurde, sondern deren Politikempfehlungen sogar die Krise erst ermöglichten und deren Folgen verschärften.