Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Dr. Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures (editor, 2019); Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor, 2022); The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023); and Social Healing (2023).

Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy: An Introduction and an Invitation - Ananta Kumar Giri Part I: Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy 1. Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Alternative Planetary Futures: Political Economy, Moral Economy, Moral Sociology, Spiritual Ecology and Beyond- Ananta Kumar Giri 2. Moral Sociology and the Marxist-Humanist Critique of Property: Toward a Critical Social-Psychology of Morality- Robert Nonomura 3. Ensouling the Critique of Political Economy: From Marx and Jung to Degrowth - Julien-François Gerber 4. From Gift to Debt: Rethinking Political Economy from a Radical Anthropological and Indigenous Perspective- Felix Padel Part II: Further Engagement with Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy 5. Economic (e)valuation: household and catallaxy- Andrew Sayer 6. Lands of Plenty, Realms of Freedom: Imagining An Automatic Life- Ronald Stade 7. Self, Pathogen and Climate: Rethinking Political Economy Today- Khirod Chandra Moharana 8. India’s Crisis of Development: A Political Economy Critique and Beyond- Pulin Nayak 9. A Relational Approach to Political Economy: Making Sense of What We Know, Towards a Society of Living - Carlos Alvarez Pereira 10. Creative Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Moral Economy: Cooperative Settlement and Utopian Community Projects as Modes of Conviviality for Thoreau, Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Gandhi- Christian Bartolf, Dominique Miething, Vishnu Varatharajan 11. Broken but Not Useless: Revisiting Marx’s Workshop and a New Ecology of Hope- Abhijeet Paul 12. Rethinking and Transforming Critiques of Political Economy: Gandhi – Kumarappa Pathways - Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph 13. International Political Economy at the Crossroads: Questions of World Order and Other Pressing Issues of International Politics - Suman Bagisha 14. Deconstructing/Reconstructing Liberal World Order for the 21st Century - Johannes D Schmidt. Index