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- catalog abstract ""Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades." "This profound and dangerous change in the power of abstract economics to shape the lives of people in rich and poor countries alike is the subject of this interdisciplinary study. Contributors show how economics has come to portray a virtual reality - a world that seems real but is merely a reflection of a neo-classical model - and how governments, the World Bank and the IMF combine to stamp the world with a virtual image that condemns as irrational our local social and cultural arrangements. Further, it is argued that virtualism represents the worrying emergence of new forms of abstraction in the political economy, of which economics is just one example."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10882101.
- catalog contributor b10882102.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades." "This profound and dangerous change in the power of abstract economics to shape the lives of people in rich and poor countries alike is the subject of this interdisciplinary study. Contributors show how economics has come to portray a virtual reality - a world that seems real but is merely a reflection of a neo-classical model - and how governments, the World Bank and the IMF combine to stamp the world with a virtual image that condemns as irrational our local social and cultural arrangements. Further, it is argued that virtualism represents the worrying emergence of new forms of abstraction in the political economy, of which economics is just one example."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Abstraction in western economic practice / James G. Carrier -- The triumph of economics / Ben Fine -- Abstraction, reality and the gender of "economic man" / Julie A. Nelson -- Development and structural adjustment / Philip McMichael -- Cash for quotas : disputes over the legitimacy of an economic model of fishing in Iceland / Agnar Helgason and Gisli Pálsson -- The transnational capitalist class / Leslie Sklair -- Virtual capitalism / Nigel Thrift -- A theory of virtualism / Daniel Miller.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "v, 222 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1859732372 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "1859732429 (paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Berg,".
- catalog subject "330 21".
- catalog subject "Abstraction.".
- catalog subject "Capitalism.".
- catalog subject "Economic development.".
- catalog subject "Economic man.".
- catalog subject "Economic policy.".
- catalog subject "Economics.".
- catalog subject "HB171 .V54 1998".
- catalog subject "Structural adjustment (Economic policy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Abstraction in western economic practice / James G. Carrier -- The triumph of economics / Ben Fine -- Abstraction, reality and the gender of "economic man" / Julie A. Nelson -- Development and structural adjustment / Philip McMichael -- Cash for quotas : disputes over the legitimacy of an economic model of fishing in Iceland / Agnar Helgason and Gisli Pálsson -- The transnational capitalist class / Leslie Sklair -- Virtual capitalism / Nigel Thrift -- A theory of virtualism / Daniel Miller.".
- catalog title "Virtualism : a new political economy / edited by James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller.".
- catalog type "text".