Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city.

David B. Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

1

(6)

PART I Consumption

7

(64)

1 Consumption controversies

9

(17)

2 Everything you ever wanted to know about consumption (but were afraid to ask Baudrillard)

26

(45)

PART II Consumption and the city

71

(56)

3 Consumption and the city, modern and postmodern

73

(23)

4 Seduced and repressed: collective consumption revisited

96

(31)

WITH MICHAEL G. BRADFORD

PART III The consumer society and the postmodern city

127

(69)

5 The meaning of lifestyle

129

(38)

6 Minimal utopia

167

(29)

Notes

196

(21)

Bibliography

217

(40)

Index

257

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Introduction: a brief history of the post-autistic economics movement

1

(10)

EDWARD FULLBROOK

PART I Documents

11

(34)

The French students' petition

13

(2)

The French professors' petition

15

(3)

post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 1

18

(4)

post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 3

22

(8)

Two curricula: Chicago vs PAE

30

(4)

Advice from student organizers in France and Spain

34

(2)

Opening up economics, The Cambridge 27

36

(3)

The Kansas City Proposal

39

(3)

Support the Report

42

(3)

PART II Teaching

45

(64)

A contribution on the state of economics in France and the world

47

(6)

JAMES K. GALBRAITH (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The Franco-American neoclassical alliance

53

(2)

JOSEPH HALEVI (University of Sydney, Australia)

Plural education

55

(3)

HUGH STRETTOLA (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Realism vs axiomatics

58

(4)

JACQUES SAPIR (L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Teaching economics through controversies

62

(8)

GILLES RAVEAUD (co-founder of Autise-Economie, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France)

A good servant but a bad master

70

(2)

GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)

Three observations on a "cultural revival" in France

72

(2)

JOSEPH HALEVI (University of Sydney, Australia)

Economists have no ears

74

(3)

STEVE KEEN (University of Wester Sydney, Australia)

Economics and multinationals

77

(3)

GRAZIA IETTO-GILLIES (South Bank University, London)

A year in French economics

80

(3)

EMMANUELLE BENICOURT (co-founder of Autisme-Economie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris)

These "wonderful" US textbooks. ..

83

(3)

LE MOUVEMENT AUTISME-ÉCONOMIE

Ignoring commercial reality

86

(4)

ALAN SHIPMAN

The perils of pluralistic teaching and how to reduce them

90

(4)

PETER E. EARL (University of Queensland, Australia)

Democracy and the need for pluralism in economics

94

(3)

PETER SÖDERBAUM (Malardalen University, Sweden)

Toward a post-autistic economics education

97

(4)

SUSAN FEINER (University of Southern Maine, USA and the Hawke Institute, University of South Australia)

Steve Keen's Debunking Economics

101

(3)

GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)

Is there anything worth keeping in standard microeconomics?

104

(5)

BERNARD GUERRIEN (Universite Paris I, France)

PART III Practice and ethics

109

(112)

Autistic economics vs the environment

113

(3)

FRANK ACKERMAN (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University,USA)

Humility in economics

116

(2)

ANDRÉ ORLÉAN (Director of Research, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

Real science is pluralist

118

(7)

EDWARD FULLBROOK (University of West of England,UK)

Books of oomph

125

(3)

DEIRDRE McCLOSKEY (University of Illinois at Chicago and Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam)

Back to reality

128

(4)

TONY LAWSON (Cambridge University, UK)

The relevance of controversies for practice as well as teaching

132

(3)

SHEILA C. DOW (University of Stirling, UK)

Revolt in political science

135

(5)

KURT JACOBSEN (University of Chicago,USA)

Beyond criticism

140

(3)

PAUL ORMEROD (Volterra Consulting,UK)

How did economics get into such a state?

143

(4)

GEOFFREY M. HODGSON (University of Hetfordshire,UK)

An extraordinary discipline

147

(3)

BEN FINE (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,UK)

What we learned in the twentieth century

150

(4)

FRANK ACKERMAN (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA)

Rethinking economics in twentieth-century America

154

(5)

MICHAEL A. BERNSTEIN (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Why the PAE movement needs feminism

159

(3)

JULIE A. NELSON (Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA)

An International Marshall Plan

162

(1)

GEOFF HARCOURT (Cambridge University, UK)

The war economy

163

(5)

JAMES K. GALBRAITH (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The globalized economy

168

(4)

JEFF GATES (Shared Capitalism Institute, USA)

Some old but good ideas

172

(3)

ANNE MAYHEW (University of Tennessee,USA)

Against: a priori theory. For: descriptively adequate computational modeling

175

(5)

BRUCE EDMONDS (Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK)

An alternative framework for economics

180

(3)

JOHN NIGHTINGALE AND JASON POTTS (University of New England and University of Queensland,Australia)

The Russian defeat of economic orthodoxy

183

(6)

STEVE KEEN (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

The tight links between post-Keynesian and feminist economics

189

(4)

MARC LAVOIE (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Is the concept of economic growth autistic?

193

(6)

JEAN GADREY (University of Lille, France)

Ontology, epistemology, language and the practice of economics

199

(4)

WARREN J. SAMDELS (Michigan State University,USA)

Is the utility maximization principle necessary?

203

(5)

KATALIN MARTINAS (Department of Atomic Physics, Roland Eotvos University, Hungary)

Quo vadis behavioral finance?

208

(4)

GEORGE M. FRANKFURTER AND ELTON G. McGOUN (Louisiana State University and Bucknell University, USA)

Psychological autism, institutional autism and economics

212

(9)

JAMES G. DEVINE (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Index

221

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