Interdependence through time: relationships in post-Keynesian thought and the care literature

Does Hyman Minsky's 'general interdependence through time' have anything to do with Carol Gilligan's 'narrative of relationships that extends over time'? Both post-Keynesian theory and the feminist 'care literature' embrace calendar time and fundamental uncertainty. Both investigate the properties of networks of wittingly-formed forward commitments between actors. If some prominent writers in the care literature are right, these networks merit their own social-ontological status, because they are reducible neither to individual behaviour nor structure. Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.