ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, the economy has become the object of novel theoretical perspectives. Scholars from diverse disciplines have begun to unravel the understanding of the economy as a self-standing entity, governed by some essential mechanism (Barry and Slater 2002; Callon 1998; du Gay and Pryke 2002; de Goede 2005; Escobar 1995; Leyshon and Thrift 1997; Mirowski 1994; Mitchell 1998; Ruccio and Amariglio 2003; Stäheli 2007; Tellmann 2003). These scholars have elucidated the uncertain boundaries, impure constituents, cultural representations and political imaginaries at work in the making of economy. These works propel and call forth what Arturo Escobar once termed “economics as culture,” in order to indicate that the economy is “above all a cultural production, a way of producing human subjects and social orders of a certain kind” (Escobar 1995: 59).
