Table of Contents

Part 1: Looking Back Looking Ahead 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Writing of Theory in Economics 1.3 The Overview 1.4 Signpost Part 2: Rooting and Routing Economics 2. Enlightenment Epistemology and the Subject-World of Economics 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Enterprise of Economics 2.3 Enlightenment and Epistemology 2.4 Subject-World of Economics 2.5 The Theory and Science of Economics 2.6 Mathematical Formalism, Representation and the Moralisation of Objectivity 2.7 Conclusion Part 3: Issues of Knowledge and Difference 3. Modernist Rendition of Knowledge and the Question of Difference 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Time and the Other of Modernist Knowledge 3.3 Rousseau’s Discourse On Political Economy 3.4 Subjectivity of Modernist Knowledge and the Transcendental Pretence 3.5 Reason, History and the Hegelian Dialectic 3.6 Human Nature and the Question of Difference 3.7 The Postcolonial Moment in Epistemology 3.8 Conclusion Part 4: Juxtaposing Questions of Identity and the Economic 4. Identity Problematics 4.1 On Identity 4.2 Abstract Essentialist Individual Identity 4.3 Critiquing the Abstract Essentialist Individual View of Identity 4.4 The Orthodox and the Heterodox: A Possible Dialogue 4.5 Rethinking the Relation of Identity and Difference in Knowledge 4.6 The Politics of Identity 5. Economics and Identity 5.1 Expanding 'Economics Inc.' (Economics Incorporated)? 5.2 Illustration One: Akerlof and Kranton on 'Economics and Identity' 5.3 Illustration Two: Sen On 'Reason Before Identity' 6. Rethinking Identity Translationally and Reconsidering the Economic 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Concentric and Translational Architectures of Identity 6.3 Identity : Economic: Culture: Economy 6.4 Conclusion Part 5: In Conclusion 7. Writing Economic Theory Another Way 7.1 A Recap 7.2 Writing Economic Theory Another Way 7.3 Pedagogy Re-Visited: Contextual Social Political Economices 7.4 Conclusion: Penpoints On Mirrors

About the Author

Nitasha Kaula(www.nitashakaul.com)ais an economist, novelist, theorist, poet.aShe has a joint doctorate in Economics and Philosophy and was previously a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics department at the Bristol Business School.aShe is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster in London, and an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. She speaksawithin and outside academia, and has published books, essays in edited volumes, journal articles, and newspaper comments on the diverse themes of identity, economics, critical social theory, democracy, technology, gender, civic governmentality, and politics of knowledge production. Her novel Residue was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009.aHer next book is a scholarly monograph on the history, politics, and economy of Bhutan, the land of Gross National Happiness (GNH).a