Gilbert Rist
- Affiliation: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Gilbert Rist is professor emeritus at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His main interest is in an anthropological approach of our contemporary society. He is the author of The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith (2008).
Books by Gilbert Rist
Delusions of Economics
The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science
Gilbert Rist
In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies, Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics was ‘invented’, and the resultant biases that helped forge the construction of economics as a ‘science’. In doing so, Rist demonstrates how these various presuppositions are either obsolete or just… (more information)