The Basho of Economics
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In the parlance of modern Japanese philosophy, the term Basho denotes a field of experience underlying all conceptions of reality, while remaining itself conceptually ungraspable. The Basho of Economics, then, refers to the economy's hidden experiential ground, which has never been explicitly scrutinized, as such, by mainstream economics. We uncover this ground by discerning the tacit presuppositions of classical and neo-classical theories from the perspective of modern Japanese philosophy. In particular, we draw attention to the traditional atomist assumptions implicit in their equilibrium-centered models. By breaking through these assumptions, we reconstruct the economy as a functional and relational world of habitual and creative activity outside of the scope of mechanical laws.
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2 - Foreword [Seite 13]
3 - Acknowledgments [Seite 25]
4 - 1 Introduction [Seite 27]
5 - 2 Methodological Presuppositions [Seite 35]
6 - 3 The Implicit Image of the Person inEconomics [Seite 47]
6.1 - 3.1 The Actor in Objective Economic Method [Seite 48]
6.2 - 3.2 Conceiving the Actor in SubjectiveEconomic Methodologies [Seite 93]
6.3 - 3.3 The Actor 'Beyond' the Subject-Object Split [Seite 108]
7 - 4 The Implicit World Picture ofEconomics [Seite 153]
7.1 - 4.1 The Definition of the Individual inEconomic Methodology [Seite 154]
7.2 - 4.2 The Determination of the Individual as aContext Dependent Existence (I) [Seite 170]
7.3 - 4.3 The Determination of the Economic World [Seite 186]
7.4 - 4.4 The Properties of the Economic World [Seite 204]
7.5 - 4.5 The Determination of the Individual as aContext Dependent Existence (II) [Seite 218]
7.6 - 4.6 The Significance of Egoism for theEconomic World [Seite 234]
7.7 - 4.7 The State and Its Relationship to the Market [Seite 248]
7.8 - 4.8 A World 'Beyond' Egoism [Seite 274]
7.9 - 4.9 The Relation of the Economic World toOther Worlds [Seite 299]
8 - 5 Conclusion [Seite 315]
9 - 6 Bibliography [Seite 324]
