Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought
Fables of Commonwealth
Abstract
We live in an era of economic fabling where often fantastic representations of economic life in popular culture sit uncomfortably alongside a neoliberal capitalist fairy tale that the Earth's resources can continue to be exploited into an indefinite future. Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, and Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics. This book contends that it does so most successfully by implementing older formations of political economic thought: stages theory, bioeconomics, and a robust discourse on commonwealth. An era of eco-crisis demands a new economics. It, therefore, also requires a new appraisal of the popular imaginary and its potential for leveraging alternative conceptions of economic and political relations. This book begins that conversation.
Schlagworte
fable neoclassical economics neoliberalism cultural studies pop culture- 1–28 Introduction 1–28
- 79–100 Life in the Wilds 79–100
- 141–166 Feast Fables 141–166
- 223–238 Bibliography 223–238
- 239–246 Index 239–246
- 247–248 About the Author 247–248