Postmodernism and economics: a middlebrow view

Warren Samuels

Journal of Economic Methodology, 1996, vol. 3, issue 1, 113-120

Abstract: Exposition and defense of postmodernism in regards to epistemology and language in economics. Centers on truth versus tools and truth versus story while emphasizing social constructivism, methodological pluralism, and multiplicity of truth. Affirms quest for confident knowledge but emphasizes limitations with regard to results understood as truth. Defends and puts into perspective the charge of 'anything goes'. Adopts self-reflexive view of postmodernism itself.

Keywords: post-modernism; truth; epistemology; knowledge; science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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