Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference

by Kaul; Nitasha

• ISBN13: 9780415383974
• ISBN10: 0415383978
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134175314
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Nitasha Kaul re-examines certain understood ways of thinking about economics as a discipline, especially in relation to questions of identity and difference. This book explores the notion that economics is not a timeless, universal, objective science but a changing response to the problems of knowledge and administration. The epistemological inheritance of economics is 'rooted' in the enlightenment, and it also inherits the liberal paradoxes of that age. Kaul argues that the juxtaposition of identity with economic (culture/economy) is essential, and can only be achieved by critiquing establishment economists' discourse on identity, and taking feminist post structural and postcolonial work seriously. The author challenges the assumption that there is a simple linkage between the category economic, the entity economy and the study of economics. This book brings together some of the most urgent topics of the day ? the power of economics as a discipline, the questions of difference andthe politics of identity, and feminist perspectives on this. It will be particularly relevant to heterodox economists, feminist theorists, post colonial studies scholars, philosophers, social theorists and history of ideas or intellectual history of thought scholars.

Table of Contents

Looking Back Looking Ahead

Introduction

Introduction

The Writing Of Theory In Economics

The Overview

Signpost

Rooting And Routing Economics

Enlightenment Epistemology And Thesubject-World Of Economics

Introduction

Enterprise Of Economics

Enlightenment And Epistemology

Subject-World Of Economics

The Theory And Science Of Economics

Mathematical Formalism, Representation And The Moralisation Of Objectivity

Conclusion

Issues Of Knowledge And Difference

Modernist Rendition Of Knowledge Andthe Question Of Difference

Introduction

Time And The Other Of Modernist Knowledge

Rousseau's Discourse On Political Economy

Subjectivity Of Modernist Knowledge And The Transcendental Pretence

Reason, History And The Hegelian Dialectic

Human Nature And The Question Of Difference

The Postcolonial Moment In Epistemology

Conclusion

Juxptaposing Questions Of Identity Andthe Economic

Identity Problematics

On Identity

Abstract Essentialist Individual Identity

Critiquing The Abstract Essentialist Individual View Of Identity

The Orthodox And The Heterodox: A Possible Dialogue

Rethinking The Relation Of Identity And Difference In Knowledge

The Politics Of Identity

Economics And Identity

Expanding "Economics Inc." (Economics Incorporated)?

Illustration One: Akerlof And Kranton On "Economics And Identity"

Illustration Two: Sen On "Reason Before Identity"

Rethinking Identity Translationallyand Reconsidering The Economic

Introduction

Concentric And Translational Architectures Of Identity

Identity : Economic :: Culture : Economy

Conclusion

In Conclusion

Writing Economic Theory Another Way

A Recap

Writing Economic Theory AnOther Way

Pedagogy Re-Visited: Contextual Social Political Economices

Conclusion: Penpoints On Mirrors

Bibliography

Index

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