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Has anyone read Piore's new book, Beyond Individualism? This sounds from
the reviews to be an attempt to apply pomo thought to understanding the
pomo economy. Albert Borgman's *Beyond the Postmodern Divide* is an
interesting and jargon-free argument for what he calls "postmodern
realism".
Finally, pomo-derived radical democrats, such as Laclau and Mouffe,
Jean-LUc Nancy and Lefort are doing interesting work that attempts to
think about the *polis* in a way that is neither communitarian nor
liberal. I think that two aspects of pomo thought are especially
important for economists: first, the de-centering of the "Subject" and
rethinking of the nature of human agency has implications for the
rational-choice account of agency (apart from the methodological debates
about *theoretical* reason, that is, pomo has implications for one's view
of *practical* reason); second, the radical democratic emphasis on the
primacy of the political is implicitly a critique of "economistic"
accounts of the political sphere, but one that (potentially) avoids the
pitfalls of communitarian accounts. No doubt there is a lot of silliness
out there, Rod, but much of interest, too!
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Roderick Hay wrote:
> I'm with Brad on this, but would be willing to change my mind if any
> proposition that originates with post-modernism can be written in clear
> language and make any sense. Otherwise I must believe that it is simply a
> random collection of meaningless noises.
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> Rod
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