Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge

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Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Cullenberg, S.; Amariglio, J.; Ruccio, D.

Source:

Routledge (2001)

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415110262/rethinkingmar-20

Abstract:

It is only in the past twenty years that the debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism have begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking moves beyond the prior emphasis of the philosophy of science: challenging the belief in the progressivity and modernity of economics and rejecting claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge. This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Mirowski on a diverse range of topics such as gender, postcolonial theory and rationality as well as postmodernism.

Table of Contents:

  • Part 1

  • Introduction

    Part 2: Modernism and Postmodernism

  • Modernism and Postmodernism: A Dialectical Analysis
  • The Implosion of Modernist intelligent Neoclassicals guide to postmodernism
  • An Intelligent Neoclassical's Guide to Postmodernism
  • Writing in thirds

    Part 3: Reading Symbols Changing Subjects and Discerning Bodies in Economic Discourse

  • From unity to dispersion: the body in modern economic discourse
  • Categories of exchange: ideality, symbolicity, reality
  • Chacun son Goux? Or, some skeptical reflections on flat bodies and heavy metal

    Part 4: Gendered Subjectivities in Neoclassical Economics

  • Analyzing post-colonial female subjectivities: the problematic limits of the economic notion of choice
  • The disavowal of the sexed body in neoclassical economics
  • Comment of Charusheela and Hewitson

    Part 5: Feminist/Postmodern Economics

  • The trouble with 'women and economics': a postmodern perspective on Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Feminist economics: objective, activist and postmodern?
  • Postmodernism and feminist economic thought
  • No more nice girls? Feminism, economics, and postmodern encounters

    Part 6: Postmodernism, Economic Rationality and the Problem of 'Representation'

  • From myth to metaphor: a semiological analysis of the Cambridge Capital Controversies
  • Postmodernism, rationality and justice
  • A disorderly household: voicing the noise
  • Postmodern encounters

    Part 7: Is there a (Postmodern) Alternative in Economics? From Markets to Gifts

  • Decentering the market metaphor in international economics
  • Refusing the gift
  • Greek gifts
  • Gifts and trade: Mirowskian, Gudemanian, and Milbergian Themes