Modern economics: the case of the disappearing body?
探讨了主流现代经济学中人类身体如何被认为已消失，并批判了这种叙事背后的人类中心主义和普遍主义，提出当代新古典经济学中实际出现的是去中心化、碎片化的后现代身体。
The human body is said, by critics of mainstream, modern economics, to have 'disappeared' from economic theory over the past century. Like subjectivity, the body is thought to have been displaced through mathematical formalism. In this paper, we present the story of this purported disappearance, from the emergence of the 'full' desiring and labouring body in Classical economics to its supposed elimination in contemporary neoclassical theory. We also present a critique of this narrative, since the story of the body's disappearance presumes a universal 'real' body as a norm. In criticising this story for its humanism and universalism, we provide an alternative reading of contemporary neoclassical economics in which a decentred, fragmented, 'postmodern' body (rather than no body at all) can be seen to emerge. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.