Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy

<p>This book analyzes contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multipronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy moral economy moral sociology moral anthropology and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society the dialogue between Karl Marx and Carl Gustav Jung a critical sociology of morality and property relations moral and political economy of the Indigenous peoples and a critique of modern civilization economic evaluation as well as alternative traditions of thinking in Marx Thoreau Gandhi J.C. Kumarappa Rammanohar Lohia B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narain. A unique transdisciplinary text the book brings together authors and approaches from both the Global North and South. It will be indispensable to students research scholars and teachers of humanities and social sciences in such fields as economics sociology philosophy cultural studies and development studies.</p>