On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis

This collection of essays is an extraordinarily important attempt to rethink some economic home truths. The rethinking begins with postcolonial recognition that

only that part of global human experience deemed history by the narrow definition of Western history has been told;

the perspective that derived from the anthropological concept of culture that became common in the social sciences early in the twentieth century never extended to the realm of ‘economic’ as defined in modern Western culture;

what is deemed to be ‘knowledge’ is in itself culturally bound.