Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge

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ISBN: 9780415110266 | 0415110262
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Copyright: 6/26/2001

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This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shuan Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Mirowski on a diverse range of topics such as gender, post-colonial theory, rationality, and modernism.

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PART I Introduction

Introduction

(58)

Stephen Cullenberg

Jack Amariglio

David F. Ruccio

PART II Modernism and postmodernism

Modernism and postmodernism: A dialectical analysis

(16)

Sheila Dow

Late modernism and the loss of character in economics

(25)

Arjo Klamer

The genealogy of postmodernism: An economist's guide

102

(27)

Deirdre McCloskey

Writing in thirds

129

(14)

Jack Amariglio

PART III Reading symbols, changing subjects and discerning bodies in economic discourse

From unity to dispersion: The body in modern economic discourse

143

(23)

Jack Amariglio

David F. Ruccio

Ideality, symbolicity, and reality in postmodern capitalism

166

(16)

Jean-Joseph Goux

Chacun son Goux? Or, some skeptical reflections on flat bodies and heavy metal

182

(15)

Regenia Gagnier

John Dupre

PART IV Gendered subjectivities in neoclassical economics

Women's choices and the ethnocentrism/relativism dilemma

197

(24)

S. Charusheela

The disavowal of the sexed body in neoclassical economics

221

(25)

Gillian Hewitson

Comment on Charusheela and Hewitson

246

(15)

Brian Cooper

PART V Feminist/postmodern economics

The trouble with women and economics: A postmodern perspective on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

261

(25)

Ulla Grapard

Feminist economics: Objective, activist, and postmodern?

286

(19)

Julie A. Nelson

Postmodernism and feminist economics

305

(22)

Jane Rossetti

No more nice girls? Feminism, economics, and postmodern encounters

327

(10)

Suzanne Bergeron

PART VI Postmodernism, economic rationality and the problem of `representation'

From myth to metaphor: A semiological analysis of the Cambridge capital controversy

337

(17)

Stephen Cullenberg

Indraneel Dasgupta

Postmodernity, rationality and justice

354

(20)

Shaun Hargreaves Heap

A disorderly household - voicing the noise

374

(25)

Judith Mehta

Postmodern encounters

399

(8)

Henry Krips

PART VII Is there a (postmodern) alternative in economics? From markets to gifts

Decentering the market metaphor in international economics

407

(24)

William Milberg

Refusing the gift

431

(28)

Philip Mirowski

Postmodern gifts

459

(16)

Stephen Gudeman

Gifts and trade: Mirowskian, Gudemanian, and Milbergian themes

475

(8)

John Davis

Name index

483

(4)

Subject index

487

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