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Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man - A Construction and Deconstruction (Hardcover)
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Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man - A Construction and Deconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to
which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics
discipline since the publication of Defoe's novel in 1719. The
authors' critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made
use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the pervasive belief of mainstream
economics that Robinson Crusoe is a benign representative of
economic agency, and that he, like other economic agents, can be
understood independently of historical and cultural specificity.
The book provides a detailed account of the appearance of Robinson
Crusoe in the economics literature and in a plethora of modern
economics texts, in which, for example, we find Crusoe is portrayed
as a schizophrenic consumer/producer trying to maximize his
personal well-being. Using poststructuralist, feminist,
postcolonial, Marxist and literary criticism approaches, the
authors of the fourteen chapters in this volume examine and
critique some of the deepest, fundamental assumptions neoclassical
economics hold about human nature; the political economy of
colonization; international trade; and the pervasive gendered
organization of social relations. The contributors to this volume
can be seen as engaging in the emerging conversation between
economists and literary scholars known as the New Economic
Criticism. They offer unique perspectives on how the economy and
economic thought can be read through different disciplinary lenses.
Economists pay attention to rhetoric and metaphor deployed in
economics, and literary scholars have found new areas to explore
and understand by focusing on economic concepts and vocabulary
encountered in literary texts.
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