ABSTRACT

Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge.

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

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Part I Introduction

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Part II Modernism and postmodernism

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

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Part IV Gendered subjectivities in neoclassical economics

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Part VI Postmodernism, economic rationality and the problem of ‘representation’

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