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| (Un)Settling
Accounts: New Languages of Economic Criticism |
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Organized
under the New Economic Criticism project |
| Presiding:
Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University |
| 1. |
"Economists,
Marxists, Critics: Whose Economics?" by Regenia Gagnier and John
Dupre, Stanford University |
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"Literary/Cultural 'Economies,' Economic Discourse, and the Question
of Marxism," by Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, and David Ruccio,
University of Notre Dame |
| Respondent:
Mark Osteen, Loyola College, Maryland |
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Both papers continued the debate about what is becoming a key issue
in this project: what is it that we do when we say we are doing
"economic criticism?" Gagnier/Dupre's paper provided a helpful capsule
history of the movement from political economy to neoclassicism,
critiquing the assumptions of neoclassicism and using Lawrence Birken's
Consuming Desire as a test case, before moving to an outline of
the dominant form of economic criticism, which they termed "cultural
poetics." Speaking as economists, Armariglio and Ruccio directly
addressed the hostility and incomprehension found in conventional
economic circles to terms such as "symbolic economy," current in
literary/economic criticism. First noting the problems in the models
of alternative economic thinkers such as Lyotard and Bataille, they
then examined what they called "the paradox of economic criticism":
how such criticism actually turns the conventional use of economic
terms against themselves to show the blind spots in neoclassical
thinking. Mark Osteen then briefly outlined the forms of economic
criticism currently in practice, and called for continuing exchange
between the disciplines with the aim of making economists more self-critical
and literary critics more rigorously "economic." |
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