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Patrick Kerans, now retired, taught social policy courses at Dalhousie and other universities for over thirty years and authored many professional books and articles. He was active in anti-poverty organizations both locally and nationally.
Books by Patrick Kerans
Turning the World Right Side Up
Science, Community and Democracy
John Kearney, Patrick Kerans
The focus of this book is on the un-sustainability of the system that economists, in the name of science, have foisted upon society. Corporations and the economists who act as their apologists, say the authors, are the cultural driving force in contemporary society. They are reductionists: they are locked into a single-minded pursuit of one narrow facet of human well-being. Framing their study within an analysis of contemporary neoliberalism, the authors explore new directions leading to a broad… (more information)