Economic Ironies Throughout History [electronic resource] : Applied Philosophical Insights for Modern Life /
Szenberg, Michael.author.
Ramrattan, L.author.
Economics for Alfred Marshall, the last of the classical economists, is concerned with activities in the ordinary business of life. In that milieu, we find conflicts and chaotic behavior among people, firms, and countries, which make them conduct their affairs in different, and sometimes, ironic ways. Economic Ironies Throughout History explores, explains, predicts, and harnesses these ironies for economists and scholars alike. Szenberg and Ramrattan distill their core economic ironies from a vast history of philosophy and literature that applies to economic thought. They include philosophical, psychological, literary and linguistic discussions and the personalities behind those ideas such as Socrates, Kierkegaard, Hume, Freud, Jung, Saussure, and Barthes. This book is ideal for economists as well as scholars across the business, social science, and humanities fields.
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Cover; Economic Ironies Throughout History; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I Historical and LogicalAspects of Irony; 1 Introduction; 2 Definitions of Irony; Sign, Referential, and Narrative Meanings of Irony; Sign and the Meaning of Irony; Meaning and Value of Signs; Referential and Ironic Meanings; Narrative and Ironic Meaning; Some Generalizations on Meaning, Values,Reference, and Narrative Ironies; Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Jacques Lacan on Irony; 3 Irony over Historical Periods; Irony in the Classical Period (Ancient Greece to the Fall of Rome)
Irony in the Middle Ages (Fifth to Fifteenth Century)Irony in the Renaissance (Sixteenth Century); Irony in the Age of Enlightenment (Mid-Seventeenth-Beginning of the Nineteenth Century); Irony in the Modern Age (Twentieth Century and Beyond); 4 Examples of Ironyin the Humanities; Example of Irony in Religion; Example of Irony in Literature; Example of Irony in Drama; Example of Irony in the Novel; Example of Irony in Poetry; 5 Examples of Irony in Philosophy on the World Stage; Socrates (469-399 BC); Soren Kierkegaard (1819-1855); Rene Descartes (1596-1650); John Locke (1632-1704)
David Hume (1711-1776)Immanuel Kant (1724-1804); Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831); Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900); Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914); Martin Heidegger (1889-1976); Paul de Man (1919-1983); Jacques Derrida (1930-2004); Richard Rorty (1931-2007); Part II Application of Ironies; 6 General Ironies; 7 Judeo-Christian Religionand Ethics; 8 Judaism; 9 Culture; 10 Human Spirit; 11 Luck; 12 Politics and War; 13 Money; 14 Contradictory Aphorisms; Notes; Preface and Acknowledgments; 6 General Ironies; 7 Judeo-Christian Religion and Ethics; 8 Judaism; 9 Culture
10 Human Spirit11 Luck; 12 Politics and War; 13 Money; 14 Contradictory Aphorisms; Bibliography; A Note from the Authors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Economics for Alfred Marshall, the last of the classical economists, is concerned with activities in the ordinary business of life. In that milieu, we find conflicts and chaotic behavior among people, firms, and countries, which make them conduct their affairs in different, and sometimes, ironic ways. Economic Ironies Throughout History explores, explains, predicts, and harnesses these ironies for economists and scholars alike. Szenberg and Ramrattan distill their core economic ironies from a vast history of philosophy and literature that applies to economic thought. They include philosophical, psychological, literary and linguistic discussions and the personalities behind those ideas such as Socrates, Kierkegaard, Hume, Freud, Jung, Saussure, and Barthes. This book is ideal for economists as well as scholars across the business, social science, and humanities fields.
Economic theory.
Behavioral economics.
Economic history.
Macroeconomics.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Economic History.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.