Serge Latouche

Serge Latouche
Serge Latouche in 2012
Born (1940-01-12) January 12, 1940
Vannes, France
Era 20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Degrowth theory
Institutions Paris XI
Main interests
 Postdevelopment theory
Notable ideas
 Degrowth

Serge Latouche (/ləˈtuːʃ/; French: [latuʃ]; born January 12, 1940) is a French emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris-Sud. He holds a degree in political sciences, in philosophy and in economy.

Work

Latouche is a specialist in North-South economic and cultural relations, and in the epistemology of the social sciences. He has developed a critical theory towards economic orthodoxy. He denounces economism, utilitarianism in social sciences, consumer society and the notion of sustainable development. He particularly criticizes the notions of economic efficiency and economic rationalism. He is one of the thinkers and most renowned partisans of the degrowth theory.[2] Latouche has also published in the Revue du Mauss, a French anti-utilitarian journal.

Publications

Books

  • Faut-il refuser le développement?: Essai sur l'anti-économique du Tiers-monde (Presses universitaires de France, 1986)
  • La planète des naufragés: Essai sur l'après-développement (La Découverte, 1991)
  • In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post-Development (Zed Books, London, 1993).
  • The Westernization of the World: Significance, Scope and Limits of the Drive Towards Global Uniformity (Polity Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1996).
  • L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché (Albin Michel, 1998).
  • La Déraison de la raison économique: de l'efficacité au principe de précaution (Albin Michel, 2001).
  • Justice sans limites: Le défi de l'éthique dans une économie mondialisée (Fayard, 2003).
  • Décoloniser l'imaginaire : La Pensée créative contre l'économie de l'absurde (Parangon, 2003).
  • Survivre au développement : De la décolonisation de l'imaginaire économique à la construction d'une société alternative (Mille et Une Nuits, 2004).
  • La Mégamachine : Raison technoscientifique, raison économique et mythe du progrès, (2004).
  • L'invention de l'économie, (2005).
  • Le pari de la décroissance, (2006).
  • Petit traité de la décroissance sereine, (Mille et Une Nuits, 2007)
  • De-growth, Inequality and Poverty" in Paolo Ventura, Enrique Calderon , Michela Tiboni, "Sustainable development Policies for Minor Deprived Urban Communities", Milano, McGraw-Hill, 2011. pages 71-79 ISBN 978-88-386-7282-8.

Contributions to other books

  • "Paradoxical Growth", Chapter 12 in The Post-Development Reader, ed. by Majid Rahnema & Victoria Bawtree (Zed Books, London, 1997).

Articles

See also

References

  1. ↑ Serge Latouche. Cornelius Castoriadis ou l'autonomie radicale. Le Passager Clandestin, 2014.
  2. ↑ Archived April 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
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