Decolonizing Economics – An Introduction

Decolonizing Economics
Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Polity Press, 2025
Level: leicht
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Perspective: Epistemologies of the south, Marxian Political Economy, Other
Topic: Criticism of Capitalism, Inequality & Class, North-South Relations & Development, Reflection of Economics
page count: 300 pages
ISBN: 9781509545483

Blurb

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 that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, 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 structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic 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.

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