ABSTRACT
I suspect that most people who are interested in the relation between postmodern thought and economics are inclined to view it as a slow moving one-way street, largely because the postmodern spirit has taken a long time to reach economics. Indeed while a postmodern jouissance has been breaking out across the social sciences, economics has remained largely immune to the festivities. This paper focuses rather unusually, therefore, on a contribution which economics makes to postmodern thought.
