The Imaginary Economy · A New Conception by Fabbri, Mario -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Description Author biography Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Argument of the book FIRST SECTION The factors in play

1. A different view of economic development 2. Economic cycles and post-war periods 3. Economic development and social constraints 4. An alternative hypothesis 5. Keynes: half under-consumptionist, half orthodox economist 6. Answering two objections 7. The disadvantages of specialisation 8. The central role of the upper classes in the introduction of new forms of consumption 9. Henry Ford’s intuitions 10. The Sismondi effect 11. Further reflections on the Sismondi effect 12. Why do people want to work? 13. Complaisance 14. The ubiquity and sociobiological origins of complaisance

SECOND SECTION The imaginary economy

THIRD SECTION Why does imaginary economy escape common awareness?

31. Premise: the advance of irrational thinking 32. Reality as a social construction 33. The policeman of reality 34. Summary 35. A final consideration

APPENDIX

A way out of the crisis Considerations on crises and economists’ prescriptions On the futile use of mathematics in economic theories Story of Ylati land

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF MAIN CONCEPTS QUOTED AUTHORS