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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Oleg Komlik — Pierre Bourdieu: Economism is a form of ethnocentrism


Economic liberalism, typified by "economism," is not only an ideology based on restrictive assumptions that are normative and prescriptive in addition to positive. It is also ethnocentric, being based on Western culturally dominant concepts and values, and in particular Anglo-American concepts and values that have been dominant post-WWII, and which economic liberals have insisted upon universalizing as "natural."

Economic Sociology and Political Economy
Pierre Bourdieu: Economism is a form of ethnocentrism
Oleg Komlik | founder and editor-in-chief of the ES/PE, Chairman of the Junior Sociologists Network at the International Sociological Association, a PhD Candidate in Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, and a Lecturer in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the College of Management Academic Studie

see also

Fast Company
Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?
Jason Hickel And Martin Kirk



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