Postcolonialism meets economics

edited by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela

In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that.The wide array of contributions to this book draw on the rapidly growing body of postcolonial studies to critique both orthodox and heterodox economics. This book addresses a large gap in postcolonial studies, which lacks the type of sophisticated analysis of economic

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Year of publication:	2004
Other Persons:	Zein-Elabdin, Eiman O. (contributor) ; Charusheela, S. (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Routledge
Subject:	Kolonialismus \| Colonialism \| Wirtschaftstheorie \| Economic theory \| Ethik \| Ethics
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xvi, 288 Seiten)
Series:	Economics as social theory
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Cover; Postcolonialism Meets Economics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction: economics and postcolonial thought; PART I The space of postcoloniality; 1 Articulating the postcolonial (with economics in mind); 2 Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economics:questions of ontology and ethics; On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis:a comment on Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela; Disciplining postcolonialism and postcolonizing the disciplines; PART II Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity 3 Classical political economy and orientalism:Nassau Senior's eastern tours4 Trading bodies, trade in bodies: The 1878 Paris World Exhibition as economic discourse; 5 Economics and the postcolonial other; Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity; Political economy and postcolonial modernities; PART III Economics as a contemporary hegemonic discourse; 6 The hungry ghost: IMF policy, global capitalist transformation, and laboring bodies in Southeast Asia; 7 Orientalism and economic methods: (Re)reading feminist economic discussions of Islam; 8 Writing economic theory anOther way Creating spaces: a comment on contemporarydiscourses in economicsEthicizing economics, or for that matter, any discourse; PART IV Toward a non-modernist economic analysis; 9 Hybrid thinking: Bringing postcolonial theory to colonial Latin American economic history; 10 Hegemony, ambivalence, and class subjectivity:southern planters in sharecropping relations inthe post-bellum United States; 11 Contested states, transnational subjects: Toward a Post Keynesianism without modernity; Econometrics and postcolonial theory: A commenton the fluidity of race Hybridity, hegemony, and heterodoxy: A new worldIndex
ISBN:	1-299-28609-7 ; 978-1-299-28609-2 ; 978-1-135-14269-8 ; 978-0-415-28725-8 ; 1-299-28608-9 ; 978-0-415-28725-8 ; 978-0-415-28726-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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