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Michel Foucault's archaeology of knowledge and economic discourse

Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The literature in economic methodology has witnessed an increase in the number of studies which, drawing upon the postmodern turn in social sciences, pay serious attention to the non-epistemological-discursive elements of economic theorizing. This recent work on the "economic discourse" has thus added a new dimension to economic methodology by analyzing various discursive aspects of the construction of scientific meanings in economics. Taking a similar stance, this paper explores Michel Foucault's archaeological analysis of scientific discourses. It aims to show that his archaeological reading of the history of economic thought provides an articulate non-epistemological framework for the analysis of the discursive elements in the history of economics and contemporary economic theorizing.
Institution: Işık University
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2604790831
FWCI: 1.041
Cites: 42
Cited by: 13
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