
Robinson Crusoes Economic Man PDF
In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoes novel in 1719. The authors critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the pervasive belief of mainstream economics that Robinson Crusoe is a benign representative of economic agency, and that he, like other economic agents, can be understood independently of historical and cultural specificity.
The book provides a detailed account of the appearance of Robinson Crusoe in the economics literature and in a plethora of modern economics texts, in which, for example, we find Crusoe is portrayed as a schizophrenic consumer/producer trying to maximize his personal well-being. Using poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, Marxist and literary criticism approaches, the authors of the fourteen chapters in this volume examine and critique some of the deepest, fundamental assumptions neoclassical economics hold about human nature
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Table of Contents. 1. Introduction Ulla Grapard and Gillian Hewitson Part 1: The Robinsonades: The Development of the Unencumbered Rational Economic Man 2.Reading and Rewriting: The Production of an Economic Robinson Crusoe Michael V. White 3.Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation Stephen Hymer 4.Robinson Crusoe and the Economists William S. …

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Robinson Crusoe, Enlightenment Man - Ordinary … Robinson Crusoe was an immediate success when first published in April, 1719. By the end of the year, it had been put through four editions in English, appeared in Dutch, French and German, was already being pirated (appropriately enough), and Defoe had completed a sequel, the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and another story, The King of the Pirates.