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Exchange is a pervasive concept in everyday life, affecting
phenomena as diverse as interpersonal relationships and market
transactions. In addition, economists have used the concept in a
highly specific and clearly delineated way. Against this
background, Expanding the Economic Concept of Exchange sets out to
expand the concept of exchange by crossing the boundaries laid down
by economists and by examining the function played by deceptions,
self-deceptions and illusions. The main motivation for expanding
the concept of exchange was the realization that in the
prototypical economic model deception is not taken into account.
Hence, economists traditionally regard deception as some sort of
irrationality, as a flaw in an otherwise perfectly rational
process. Authors represented in this volume take a different
approach examining deception as a constituent quality of exchange.
This is shown by the contributions drawing on recent developments
in economic theory, by those with an anthropological orientation,
as well as by a contribution referring specifically to Adam Smith.
An interrogation into deception is long overdue in economics. This
volume prepares the ground for and makes the first contributions to
explicitly acknowledging deceptions, self-deceptions and illusions
as fundamental dimensions allowing us as economists to further
research and develop the concept of change. A particular and
perhaps unexpected focus of this volume lies on anthropology,
because economics can clearly benefit from integrating selected
results on deception from outside its expanding domain. It is
primarily targeted at economists interested in institutional
aspects of exchanges and social theory. In addition, the topic will
find interested readers from anthropology, cultural studies,
science studies, philosophy.
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."
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."
Exchange is a pervasive concept in everyday life, affecting
phenomena as diverse as interpersonal relationships and market
transactions. In addition, economists have used the concept in a
highly specific and clearly delineated way. Against this
background, Expanding the Economic Concept of Exchange sets out to
expand the concept of exchange by crossing the boundaries laid down
by economists and by examining the function played by deceptions,
self-deceptions and illusions. The main motivation for expanding
the concept of exchange was the realization that in the
prototypical economic model deception is not taken into account.
Hence, economists traditionally regard deception as some sort of
irrationality, as a flaw in an otherwise perfectly rational
process. Authors represented in this volume take a different
approach examining deception as a constituent quality of exchange.
This is shown by the contributions drawing on recent developments
in economic theory, by those with an anthropological orientation,
as well as by a contribution referring specifically to Adam Smith.
An interrogation into deception is long overdue in economics. This
volume prepares the ground for and makes the first contributions to
explicitly acknowledging deceptions, self-deceptions and illusions
as fundamental dimensions allowing us as economists to further
research and develop the concept of change. A particular and
perhaps unexpected focus of this volume lies on anthropology,
because economics can clearly benefit from integrating selected
results on deception from outside its expanding domain. It is
primarily targeted at economists interested in institutional
aspects of exchanges and social theory. In addition, the topic will
find interested readers from anthropology, cultural studies,
science studies, philosophy.
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