A journey into Arcade Fire's Suburbs (2010) unveils the dark and de-humanising patterns of a life reduced merely to production and consumption. In economics, far away from life as it is really lived, everything is shrunk into a single dimension of either 'profit' or 'utility', and each person maximizes this on their own.
As a social scientist, I am aware that each academic discipline thinks that it alone captures the fullness of the human person in its description, and then mistakenly offers its withering prescriptions.
My work on culture, economics and ethics is devoted to re-humanising economics.
After all, identity is more than individuality, fulfilment is more than utility, and society is more than markets.
You can join me on a scholarly journey at: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/is-the-model-of-human-nature-in-economics-fundamentally-flawed/10094722
