The economics of identity and the identity of economics?
批判性地评估了Akerlof和Kranton基于个体与社会选择理论的经济学身份方法,指出其定义和技术难题,并认为主流经济学方法难以充分处理身份问题,进而将身份经济学置于当代经济学身份变化的背景下讨论。
Drawing upon individual and social choice theory, the economic approach to identity associated with Akerlof and Kranton is critically assessed in terms of its own definitional and technical conundrums. This leads on to an external critique in terms of the limited extent to which identity can be addressed by mainstream economic methods. Indeed, the latter essentially sets aside the insights into the nature of identity that emerged with modernism, let alone postmodernism. As a result, the enterprise of constructing an economics of identity is set in the context of recent changes in, and disagreement over interpretation of, the identity of contemporary economics.