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Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, this Routledge publication offers a rigorous critique of economic individualism and the language dominating contemporary intellectual discourse. The authors challenge the tendency to dichotomise concepts such as left and right, social and economic, and globalisation versus anti-globalisation, demonstrating how these divisions stem from our adherence to the rational economic agent model. Through case studies of cooperatives, the book reveals these organisations as paradoxical entities within a worldview where the social exists only as secondary to economic considerations. This work provides essential reading for those seeking to understand how cooperative structures challenge and complicate traditional economic categories, offering fresh perspectives on social and economic theory for academics, students and practitioners interested in alternative economic models and institutional critique.

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Routledge publication offering theoretical critique grounded in Polanyi, Austin and Lacan's intellectual frameworks.

Examines cooperatives as case studies to expose contradictions within conventional economic thought and categorisation.

Challenges dichotomous thinking about social versus economic spheres in contemporary political and intellectual discourse.

Addresses economic individualism and the primacy of the rational economic agent in shaping modern conceptual systems.

Suitable for academic study in anthropology, sociology and economic theory across upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Release Date
15 December 2017
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19 December 2017

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