ABSTRACT
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 questions that it displays in its analysis of culture. The intellectual and disciplinary terrain covered within this book spans economics, history, anthropology, philosophy, literary theory, political science and women's studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |18 pages
Introduction
part I|52 pages
The space of postcoloniality
chapter 2|19 pages
Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economicss
chapter |6 pages
On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis
part II|71 pages
Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity
chapter 4|22 pages
Trading bodies, trade in bodies
part III|70 pages
Economics as a contemporary hegemonic discourse
chapter 6|20 pages
The hungry ghost
chapter 7|18 pages
Orientalism and economic methods
part IV|68 pages
Toward a non-modernist economic analysis