Homo Economicus the (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times - Cohen, Daniel 1953-2023 (Polity, 2014)
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Gross Domestic Happiness; Lost Time; Divorcing and Ageing; Make Your Own Unhappiness; An Anthropological Monster; Ten Pieces of Advice; 2: Work: A Diminishing Value; Management by Stress; The New Spirit of Capitalism; The New Age of Inequalities; The Hyper-Class; 3: The Decline of Empire; Late Antiquity; Fall of the Western Empire; How the West Became Christian; Are We Rome?; Decline of American Civic Spirit; American Exceptionalism; 4: De-Centring the World; From New York to Shanghai; Rethinking Poverty
Asia Takes off Badly On China; Good-Bye Lenin; Democracy and Capitalism; Homo Politicus; 5: The Great Western Crisis; Sad Globalization; Europe in Distress; De-Industrialization; Planetary Isolation; 6: Darwin's Nightmare; Homo Numericus; Darwin and the Economists; The Selfish Gene; The Genetic Body; 7: The Postmodern Condition; The Late-Modern World; A Postmaterialist Society?; The Spectre of Marx; Healthy Expenditures; Returning to Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference; Economic history; Economic man; Economics; Happiness / Economic aspects; Wirtschaft; Wirtschaft. Geschichte; Happiness -- Economic aspects; Kapitalismus; Postmoderne; Wirtschaftssoziologie