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Postmodernism, economics and knowledge
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- Summary
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This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Miroswki on a diverse range of topics.
Details
- Creator
- [edited by] Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio and David Ruccio
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London : Routledge, 2002
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (513 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781134836673, 1134836678, 9780429231094, 0429231091, 9780585459233, 0585459231, 9780203410707, 020341070X, 9781280336454, 1280336455, 0415110262, 0415110254
- OCLC
- ocn264518909
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- POSTMODERNISM, ECONOMICS AND KNOWLEDGE; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part IIntroduction; 1 Introduction; Part IIModernism and postmodernism; 2 Modernism and postmodernism: A dialectical analysis; 3 Late modernism and the loss of character in economics; 4 The genealogy of postmodernism: An economist's guide; 5 Writing in thirds; Part III Reading symbols, changing subjects and discerning bodies in economic discourse; 6 From unity to dispersion: The body in modern economic discourse
- 7 Ideality, symbolicity, and reality in postmodern capitalism8 Chacun son Goux? Or, some skeptical reflections on flat bodies and heavy metal; Part IVGendered subjectivities in neoclassical economics; 9 Women's choices and the ethnocentrism/relativism dilemma; 10 The disavowal of the sexed body in neoclassical economics; 11 Comment on Charusheela and Hewitson; Part VFeminist/postmodern economics; 12 The trouble with women and economics: A postmodern perspective on Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 13 Feminist economics: Objective, activist, and postmodern?; 14 Postmodernism and feminist economics
- 15 No more nice girls? Feminism, economics, and postmodern encountersPart VIPostmodernism, economic rationality and the problem of 'representation'; 16 From myth to metaphor: A semiological analysis of the Cambridge capital controversy; 17 Postmodernity, rationality and justice; 18 A disorderly household - voicing the noise; 19 Postmodern encounters; Part VIIIs there a (postmodern) alternative in economics? From markets to gifts; 20 Decentering the market metaphor in international economics; 21 Refusing the gift; 22 Postmodern gifts
- 23 Gifts and trade: Mirowskian, Gudemanian, and Milbergian themesName index; Subject index