economic modelling and thought. Part three presents two case
studies as examples of deceptive autonomy and shows the impact of
this deception on the situation of women from the viewpoint of
cultural studies and social anthropology. Part four relates
methodological reflections on feminist and mainstream economics to
the theme of the book. The first part of this book is devoted to a
reconsideration of Adam Smith as a starting point for feminist
perspectives on exchange. Drawing on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral
Sentiments Caroline Gerschlager sets the stage for expanding the
economic concept of exchange. She analyses and develops Smith's
insight that deception is inevitable in the social setting. Smith's
system of sympathy, which Gerschlager analyses as a system of
exchange, i.e. exchange is conceived in terms of changing places in
the imagination, is compared with exchange as conceived by the
neoclassical approach. Her analysis reveals that these approaches
arrive at contrasting results with regard to deception. Whereas in
the former deception is vital to an understanding of exchange, the
latter regards deception as an inefficiency, hindering exchange and
ultimately making it impossible. Gerschlager points out that a
certain degree of deception is inevitable, and that living in
society therefore also amounts to "deceiving and being deceived."
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