Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge

Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge
Title Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Stephen Cullenberg
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 514
Release 2001
Genre Economics
ISBN 9780415110266

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It should serve as a useful reference tool for all those studying postmodernism and the history of economic thought.

Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics

Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics
Title Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics PDF eBook
Author David F. Ruccio
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 372
Release 2016-06-28
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1400880114

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Of all the areas of contemporary thought, economics seems the most resistant to the destabilizing effects of postmodernism. Yet, David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio argue that one can detect, within the diverse schools of thought that comprise the discipline of economics, "moments" that defy the modernist ideas to which many economists and methodologists remain wedded. This is the first book to document the existence and to explore the implications of the postmodern moments in modern economics. Ruccio and Amariglio begin with a powerful argument for the general relevance of postmodernism to contemporary economic thought. They then conduct a series of case studies in six key areas of economics. From the idea of the "multiple self" and notions of uncertainty and information, through market anomalies and competing concepts of value, to analytical distinctions based on gender and academic standing, economics is revealed as defying the modernist frame of a singular science. The authors conclude by showing how economic theory would change if the postmodern elements were allowed to flourish. A work of daring analysis sure to be vigorously debated, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics is both accessible and relevant to all readers concerned about the modernist straightjacket that has been imposed on the way economics is thought about and practiced in the world today.

Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge

Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge
Title Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Roger Backhouse
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 268
Release 1997
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Backhouse (history and philosophy of economics, U. of Birmingham, England) believes in truth and progress, but defends them against postmodern skepticism by using some of the same sources it does rather than trying to return to a pre-lapsarian state. He concludes by doubting the success of the conventional division of labor in which economic theorists transmute general assumptions into hypotheses to be tested, and econometricians test those theories statistically and establish empirical generalizations. Those two functions, he says, must interact on a much more intimate level. Some of the material is revised from previous publication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge

Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge
Title Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge PDF eBook
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Pages 495
Release 2002
Genre Economics
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Economic Methodology

Economic Methodology
Title Economic Methodology PDF eBook
Author Marcel Boumans
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 248
Release 2017-09-16
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1137545577

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Economic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this introduction to the field of economic methodology. By doing this they strengthen students' understanding of economics as a science to enhance their reasoning skills, introducing them to the wider philosophical issues surrounding our understanding of the area.

Knowledge, Class, and Economics

Knowledge, Class, and Economics
Title Knowledge, Class, and Economics PDF eBook
Author Theodore A. Burczak
Publisher Routledge
Pages 803
Release 2017-10-16
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1351798073

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Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic Marxism first formulated in the mid-1970s by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and their economics Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The title captures the defining ideas of the Amherst School: an open-system framework that presupposes the complexity and contingency of social-historical events and the parallel "overdetermination" of the relationship between subjects and objects of inquiry, along with a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor. In a collection of 30 original essays, chapters confront readers with the core concepts of overdetermination and class in the context of economic theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, economic geography, economic anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory/studies. Though Resnick and Wolff’s writings serve as a focal point for this collection, their works are ultimately decentered—contested, historicized, reformulated. The topics explored will be of interest to proponents and critics of the post-structuralist/postmodern turn in Marxian theory and to students of economics as social theory across the disciplines (economics, geography, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, among others).

Explaining Postmodernism

Explaining Postmodernism
Title Explaining Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Pages 250
Release 2004
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9781592476428

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