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Kaul Nitasha

Imagining economics otherwise : Encounters with identity/difference - London Routledge 2009 - 281p xiii

Table of contents
Part 1: Looking Back Looking Ahead;
1. Introduction;
1.1 Introduction;
1.2 The Writing of Theory in Economics;
1.3 The Overview;
1.4 Signpost;
Part 2: Rooting and Routing Economics;
2. Enlightenment Epistemology and the Subject-World of Economics;
2.1 Introduction;
2.2 Enterprise of Economics;
2.3 Enlightenment and Epistemology;
2.4 Subject-World of Economics;
2.5 The Theory and Science of Economics;
2.6 Mathematical Formalism, Representation and the Moralisation of Objectivity;
2.7 Conclusion;
Part 3: Issues of Knowledge and Difference;
3. Modernist Rendition of Knowledge and the Question of Difference;
3.1 Introduction;
3.2 Time and the Other of Modernist Knowledge;
3.3 Rousseau's Discourse On Political Economy;
3.4 Subjectivity of Modernist Knowledge and the Transcendental Pretence;
3.5 Reason, History and the Hegelian Dialectic;
3.6 Human Nature and the Question of Difference;
3.7 The Postcolonial Moment in Epistemology;
3.8 Conclusion;
Part 4: Juxtaposing Questions of Identity and the Economic;
4. Identity Problematics;
4.1 On Identity;
4.2 Abstract Essentialist Individual Identity;
4.3 Critiquing the Abstract Essentialist Individual View of Identity;
4.4 The Orthodox and the Heterodox: A Possible Dialogue;
4.5 Rethinking the Relation of Identity and Difference in Knowledge;
4.6 The Politics of Identity;
5. Economics and Identity;
5.1 Expanding 'Economics Inc.' (Economics Incorporated);
5.2 Illustration One: Akerlof and Kranton on 'Economics and Identity;
5.3 Illustration Two: Sen On 'Reason Before Identity;
6. Rethinking Identity Translationally and Reconsidering the Economi;
6.1 Introduction;
6.2 Concentric and Translational Architectures of Identity;
6.3 Identity : Economic: Culture: Economy;
6.4 Conclusion;
Part 5: In Conclusion;
7. Writing Economic Theory Another Way;
7.1 A Recap;
7.2 Writing Economic Theory Another Way;
7.3 Pedagogy Re-Visited: Contextual Social Political Economices;
7.4 Conclusion: Penpoints On Mirrors

ISBN: 9780415484503

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Economics -Philosophy

Dewey Class. No.: 330.000000 / KAU