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Cambridge Journal of Economics Advance Access originally published online on March 14, 2006
Cambridge Journal of Economics 2006 30(4):613-635; doi:10.1093/cje/bej001
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved.

Article

Persuasive devices

Roy J. Rotheim*

* Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Address for correspondence: Department of Economics, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA; email: rrotheim{at}skidmore.edu

Abstract

This paper addresses the devices by which we persuade in the discipline—to produce and reproduce representations of economies that focus on atomistic individuals, freedom of choice and closed systems. By means of these devices we erase from our perceptual field those characteristics of the economic realm that consider elements of the social nature of individuals, open system thinking, relationality and relative power, including the influence played by income and wealth distribution.

Key Words: Methodology • Relation of economic to other disciplines

JEL classifications: A12, B41

Manuscript received June 21, 2004; final version received November 30, 2005.


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