Kvangraven Ingrid Harvold - Decolonizing Economics An Introduction - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much - needed intervention. Dutt Alves Kesar and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations of the economics discipline that fundamentally shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill - equipped to tackle critical questions of our time such as structural racism uneven development the climate crisis labour relations and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously the problematic dynamics of structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic growth and development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non - Eurocentric perspectives. Through such scholarship we can gain an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation colonialism and racialization. The author order is randomized. All authors contributed equally to the book.
Title: Decolonizing Economics An Introduction
Author(s): Kvangraven Ingrid Harvold
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509545483
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/5/2025
Series: Decolonizing the Curriculum
Category: Economic Theory & Philosophy