Nitasha Kaul

Imagining Economics Otherwise (eBook, PDF)

Encounters with Identity/Difference

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It is possible to beirrational without beinguneconomic ? What is the link betweenValue andvalues ? What do economists do when theyexplain ? We live in times when the economic logic has become unquestionable and all-powerful so that our quotidian economic experiences are defined by their scientific construal. This book is the result of a

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134175321
• Artikelnr.: 43071161

Autorenporträt

Nitasha Kaul is an economist, novelist, theorist, poet. She has a joint doctorate in Economics and Philosophy and was previously a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics department at the Bristol Business School.?She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster in London, and an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. She speaks?within and outside academia, and has published books, essays in edited volumes, journal articles, and newspaper comments on the diverse themes of identity, economics, critical social theory, democracy, technology, gender, civic governmentality, and politics of knowledge production. Her novel Residue was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009.?Her next book is a scholarly monograph on the history, politics, and economy of Bhutan, the land of Gross National Happiness (GNH).?

Inhaltsangabe

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 Economic 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