Postmodern Economics
Postmodern Economics – Introduction
The following quotations by Rorty and Ruccio and Amariglio illustrate one of the hurdles to understanding Postmodern economics—a lack of consensus among Postmodernists:
(David F. Ruccio and Jack Amariglio)1
“Just about the only constructive suggestion Marx made, the abolition of private property, has been tried. It did not work."
(Richard Rorty)2
Ruccio and Amariglio expose the heart of Postmodern economics—and to understand them, we must define unified self and decentered self and why they are said to be fictions. Postmodern Economics – ‘I.’”5] ‘really’ looks like..”7.8
One of the major goals of Postmodern economics is to eliminate the distinction between men and women, a distinction that has been “inculcated by an oppressive patriarchal society.”9.
Postmodern Economics – Socialism vs..”10.”11
Some Postmodernists prefer to replace the term socialism with everyday economics.12].”13.”14
Postmodern Economics – F. Ruccio and Jack Amariglio, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 299.
2 Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1999), 214.
3 Ruccio and Amariglio, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, 17–8.
4 Ibid., 14.
5 Ibid., 167.
6 Ibid., 134.
7 Ibid., 169.
8 Ibid., 129.
9 The Washington Times, April 21, 2005, A2.
10 Ruccio and Amariglio, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, 250.
11 Ibid., 249.
12 Ibid., 270.
13 Ibid., 269.
14 Stephen R.C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Tempe, AZ: Scholargy Publishing, 2004), 197.
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