The making of the economy : a phenomenology of economic science /
How did modern man come to believe in the object of the economy? What hopes made us accept scientific authority about this illusive thing? What kinds of persons were attracted by objective knowledge in economic discourse? And how does this knowledge guide our economic life? The Making of the Economy...
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
[2011], ©2011
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Table of Contents:
- Science and the life-world
- Formalism and how economists forgot the life-world
- Structuralism and how economists made the economy
- The pre-history of the economy : the oikonomia
- The urstiftung of the economy in the seventeenth century
- The battles for the economy since 1848
- The diminishing weight of meaning of the economy during the socialist calculation debate
- The secret engineering of the free economy during the Cold War
- The waning of the economy today
- Part I Philosophy 23
- 1 Science and the Life-World 25
- 2 Formalism and How Economists Forgot the Life-World 45
- 3 Structuralism and How Economists Made the Economy 65
- Part II History 79
- 4 The Pre-History of the Economy: The Oikonomia 83
- 5 The Urstiftung of the Economy in the Seventeenth Century 101
- 6 The Battles for the Economy since 1848 123
- 7 The Diminishing Weight of Meaning of the Economy during the Socialist Calculation Debate 143
- 8 The Secret Engineering of the Free Economy during the Cold War 161
- 9 The Waning of the Economy Today 183