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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