Post-modernism and the notion of rationality in economics
评估了经济学家将后现代主义框架作为行为主义模型替代方案的贡献，发现后现代主义虽指出主流经济学问题，但未能摆脱实证主义的人类中心主义，从而无法支撑其宣扬的选择和能动性概念。
This article assesses contributions from economists who see the postmodernist framework as providing a viable alternative to the behavioristic model of action in economics. It is found that, although postmodernism identifies many of the problems of mainstream economics, it too remains unable to sustain the notions of choice and agency that it preaches because it fails to escape the anthropocentrism of positivist philosophy. Once this anthropocentrism is abandoned, it can be seen that agency lies not only in linguistic redescription but also in the understanding of real causal mechanisms that exist and act independently of any individual human agents. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.