Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics

By: David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio

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Hardcover | 5 January 2004

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Of all the areas of contemporary thought, economics seems the most resistant to the destabilizing effects of postmodernism. Yet, David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio argue that one can detect, within the diverse schools of thought that comprise the discipline of economics, "moments" that defy the modernist ideas to which many economists and methodologists remain wedded. This is the first book to document the existence and to explore the implications of the postmodern moments in modern economics.

Ruccio and Amariglio begin with a powerful argument for the general relevance of postmodernism to contemporary economic thought. They then conduct a series of case studies in six key areas of economics. From the idea of the "multiple self" and notions of uncertainty and information, through market anomalies and competing concepts of value, to analytical distinctions based on gender and academic standing, economics is revealed as defying the modernist frame of a singular science. The authors conclude by showing how economic theory would change if the postmodern elements were allowed to flourish.

A work of daring analysis sure to be vigorously debated, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics is both accessible and relevant to all readers concerned about the modernist straightjacket that has been imposed on the way economics is thought about and practiced in the world today.

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"No other treatment of economics and postmodernism, including those written by the same authors, is as good as this one. The first chapter, which introduces postmodernism and constructs a genealogy of postmodernism in economics, is excellent. The last chapter ... is a great addition because it challenges the notion that the economics expert has an unqualified 'better' understanding of the economy that the person on the street."--Choice

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Non-Fiction Economics Economic Theory & Philosophy

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
An Introduction to Postmodernism, for Economics	p. 1
Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Keynesian Economics	p. 55
The Body and Neoclassical Economics	p. 92
Feminist Economics: (Re)Gendering Knowledge and Subjectivity	p. 137
Values and Institutional Economics	p. 171
Capitalism, Socialism, and Marxian Economics	p. 216
Academic and Everyday Economic Knowledges	p. 252
Appendix A	p. 283
Appendix B	p. 285
Appendix C	p. 287
Economic Fragments	p. 289
References	p. 301
Index	p. 333
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