The Basho Of Economics —— An Intercultural Analysis of the Process of Economics. Translated and Introduced by Roger Gathman

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ISBN: 9783110327984 出版年：2013 页码：337 Graupe, Silja De Gruyter

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.