The Cycle-of-Knowing

Ralph Pettman
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Ralph Pettman: University of Melbourne, Australia

Chapter 24 in Handbook on International Political Economy, 2012, pp 415-434 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractAs argued in the Introduction, international political economy (IPE) is described and explained in one or another of the analytical languages used to articulate the meta-discourse of modernism or 'Enlightenment rationalism'. These languages promote the assumptions modernist/rationalists make despite the fact that, as detached social scientists, they are not supposed to make any. Since only someone divine or insane could be completely detached, and since social scientists are neither, they can be seen as making assumptions regardless. It is with these that they contend in the meta-realm of the mind where rationalism makes possible the pursuit of science — be it natural or social…

Keywords: Political Economy; International Political Economy; Industrial Revolution; Liberal Capitalism; Markets; Production; Consumption; Trade; Finance; Globalization; Work; North/South; Gender; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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