01883nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_133402 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 2118000 330.1 K24 Kaul, Nitasha Imagining economics otherwise : Encounters with identity/difference Nitasha Kaul London Routledge 2008 This book brings together some of the most urgent topics of the day – the power of economics as a discipline, the questions of difference and the politics of identity, and feminist perspectives on this. It will be particularly relevant to heterodox economists, feminist theorists, post colonial studies scholars, philosophers, social theorists and history of ideas or intellectual history of thought scholars. Nitasha Kaul re-examines certain understood ways of thinking about economics as a discipline, especially in relation to questions of identity and difference. This book explores the notion that economics is not a timeless, universal, objective science but a changing response to the problems of knowledge and administration. The epistemological inheritance of economics is 'rooted' in the enlightenment, and it also inherits the liberal paradoxes of that age. Kaul argues that the juxtaposition of identity with economic (culture/economy) is essential, and can only be achieved by critiquing establishment economists' discourse on identity, and taking feminist post structural and postcolonial work seriously. The author challenges the assumption that there is a simple linkage between the category economic, the entity economy and the study of economics. Economics,Kinh tế học Philosophy,Triết học Trọng Hiếu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ