Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing - An Embodied Cognition Approach to Economic Life

In "Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing", Frédéric Basso and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath outline a concrete utopia for an economic order centered on human dignity and care for life on earth.

In their publication "Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing", the two authors present embodied economics as a fundamental alternative to behavioral economics and other projects that combine economics and psychology in terms of the computational paradigm.

The 20th century witnessed the disembodiment of economic models through the intensification of mathematization and formal abstraction in economics. In the wake of pioneering perspectives in the cognitive and social sciences that have helped to rethink the fundamental building blocks of economics, action and institutions, this title takes a radical turn towards embodiment. By reintroducing economics as political economy, embodied economics motivates a critique of capitalism based on the analysis of disembodiment through abstraction and reactivates important critical insights into anthropology put forward by the young Marx about contemporary economics and its conceptualizations of money, property, and labor.

This book contributes to recent debates on behavioral, experimental, and neuroeconomics and is aimed at a transdisciplinary audience from the social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and the humanities.

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Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing         
Frédéric Basso & Carsten Herrmann-Pillath        
Palgrave Macmillan Cham 
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54970-0 | Published: 12 May 2024 | 117,69 €
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54973-1 | Due: 12 June 2024 | 94,15 €
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54971-7

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