What is it about?
The introduction builds on critiques to transnational corporations and global economic institutions to highlight knowledge and decision-making unbalances across regions. It also frames the contents of the book.
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Why is it important?
This book aims at providing a specific perspective on the role of knowledge for the analysis of economic development issues. In particular, we emphasise knowledge, creativity and critical thinking as forces in processes of change, including those transforming the rules governing economic systems. A treatment of the scope for change, in those terms, is rooted in a concern for economic governance and the enduring imbalances related to the economic system and its institutions.
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If we had to frame the context of this book, we could evoke concerns about economies, the loss of critical capacity within them and, more broadly with respect to society. The decay of critical thinking with respect to what happens in society is, in a sense, the decline of democracy. What we mean is that if we do not exercise our critical thinking and we renounce to imagine and possibly pursue different ideas, different worlds, we loose our interest in participating in a process where objectives are already given.
Dr Silvia Sacchetti
Universita degli Studi di Trento
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DOI: 10.4337/9781849802345.00009.
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