Political Economy as Theodicy

Progress, Suffering and Denial

David L. Blaney (Macalester College, USA)

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English

Routledge
05 March 2024

Political science & theory; Economic theory & philosophy; Political economy

Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.

This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic thought – primarily Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, W. Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Bates Clark. Theodicy is a constitutive element of an international political economy (IPE) that often disavows moral evil, while it conversely redefines such evil as an actual good within economic life. Beginning with the Enlightenment thinkers and continuing through to the modern neoclasscial economists, this book traces the initial emergence of a natural theological basis for political economic thinking and concludes with a discussion of its application in modern IPE. Relying upon a postcolonial framework, the author seeks to provincialize economics, creating space for alternative modes of being and doing.

This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of IPE, political theology, international relations and postcolonial studies.

By: David L. Blaney (Macalester College USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032625737
ISBN 10: 1032625732
Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David L. Blaney is G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. He writes on the political and social theory of international relations and global political economy. His three earlier books (with Naeem Inayatullah), International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004), Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010) and Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism: A Critique of Liberal IPE and Global Capitalism (2021), center on culture and political economy and the limits of liberal IPE. With Arlene B. Tickner, he has edited Thinking International Relations Differently (2012) and Claiming the International (2013).