Postcolonialism Meets Economics

Postcolonialism Meets Economics
ISBN-10
1135142696
ISBN-13
9781135142698
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2013-04-15
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
S. Charusheela, Eiman Zein-Elabdin

Description

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.

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