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Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective

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  1. Caroline Gerschlager

    1. Institute of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

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  2. Monika Mokre

    1. ICE, Research Unit for Institutional Change and European Integration, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Caroline Gerschlager, Monika Mokre

      • Caroline Gerschlager, Monika Mokre
      Pages 3-9

  3. A Feminist Reading of Economic Thinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Adam Smith, Exchange, Deception and Women

      1. Adam Smith and Feminist Perspectives on Exchange
        • Caroline Gerschlager
        Pages 13-26
      2. On Adam Smith and Gender Construction
        • Monika Mokre
        Pages 27-41
      3. Feminism and the Economics of Deception: An Examination of Adam Smith’s “Spirit of System”
        • Julie A. Nelson
        Pages 43-54
      4. Some Ear-Picking Comments on Adam Smith, Feminism and Deception
        • Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
        Pages 55-58

    3. The World of Economists/Economic Exchange: From the Old Testament to Gary Becker

      1. The Political Economy of the Divine
        • Susan Feiner
        Pages 61-73
      2. Dependency and Denial in Conceptualizations of Economic Exchange
        • Edith Kuiper
        Pages 75-90
      3. The Need of an Intergender Contract in Overlapping Generations (OLG) Models
        • Doris A. Behrens, Gottfried Haber, Christian Richter, Karin Schönpflug
        Pages 91-103
      4. On Dependency, Caring and Criticism
        • Richard Sturn
        Pages 105-110

  5. Methodological Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Symmetry in Feminist Economics

      • Esther-Mirjam Sent
      Pages 147-163

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 165-169
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economic modelling and thought. Part three presents two case studies as examples of deceptive autonomy and shows the impact of this deception on the situation of women from the viewpoint of cultural studies and social anthropology. Part four relates methodological reflections on feminist and mainstream economics to the theme of the book. The first part of this book is devoted to a reconsideration of Adam Smith as a starting point for feminist perspectives on exchange. Drawing on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments Caroline Gerschlager sets the stage for expanding the economic concept of exchange. She analyses and develops Smith's insight that deception is inevitable in the social setting. Smith's system of sympathy, which Gerschlager analyses as a system of exchange, i.e. exchange is conceived in terms of changing places in the imagination, is compared with exchange as conceived by the neoclassical approach. Her analysis reveals that these approaches arrive at contrasting results with regard to deception. Whereas in the former deception is vital to an understanding of exchange, the latter regards deception as an inefficiency, hindering exchange and ultimately making it impossible. Gerschlager points out that a certain degree of deception is inevitable, and that living in society therefore also amounts to "deceiving and being deceived".

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

    Caroline Gerschlager

  • ICE, Research Unit for Institutional Change and European Integration, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria

    Monika Mokre

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective

  • Editors: Caroline Gerschlager, Monika Mokre

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3470-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7160-7Published: 31 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5301-8Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3470-6Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 170

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Sciences, general

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