Postcolonialism Meets Economics or The Quality of Growth

Postcolonialism Meets Economics

Author: S Charusheela

In the last half century, economics has take 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.
With contributions from such leading scholars as Robert Dimand, R. Radhakrishnan and Anne Mayhew, this impressive new book brings two massive subjects together for the first time. Students andresearchers involved with economics and postcolonial studies as well as being of interest across the social science spectrum.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Preface and acknowledgments
	Introduction: economics and postcolonial thought	1
1	Articulating the postcolonial (with economics in mind)	21
2	Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economics: questions of ontology and ethics	40
	Comment: On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis: a comment on Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela	59
	Comment: Disciplining postcolonialism and postcolonizing the disciplines	65
3	Classical political economy and orientalism: Nassau Senior's eastern tours	73
4	Trading bodies, trade in bodies: the 1878 Paris World Exhibition as economic discourse	91
5	Economics and the postcolonial other	113
	Comment: Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity	130
	Comment: Political economy and postcolonial modernities	136
6	The hungry ghost: IMF policy, global capitalist transformation, and laboring bodies in Southeast Asia	145
7	Orientalism and economic methods: (re)reading feminist economic discussion of Islam	165
8	Writing economic theory another way	183
	Comment: Creating spaces: a comment on contemporary discourses in economics	201
	Comment: Ethicizing economics, or for that matter, any discourse	207
9	Hybrid thinking: bringing postcolonial theory to colonial Latin American economic history	215
10	Hegemony, ambivalence, and class subjectivity: southern planters in sharecropping relations in the post-bellum United States	235
11	Contested states, transnational subjects: toward a Post Keynesianism without modernity	253
	Comment: Econometrics and postcolonial theory: a comment on the fluidity of race	271
	Hybridity, hegemony, and heterodoxy: a new world	275
	Index	281

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The Quality of Growth

Author: World Bank Publications

Part of the World Bank's Millennium Program, this book offers a retrospective of the World Bank's development efforts since 1991.