The Basho of economics : an intercultural analysis of the process of economics / Silja Graupe ; translated and introduced by Roger Gathman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodological Presuppositions; 3 The Implicit Image of the Person inEconomics; 3.1 The Actor in Objective Economic Method; 3.2 Conceiving the Actor in SubjectiveEconomic Methodologies; 3.3 The Actor 'Beyond' the Subject-Object Split; 4 The Implicit World Picture ofEconomics; 4.1 The Definition of the Individual inEconomic Methodology; 4.2 The Determination of the Individual as aContext Dependent Existence (I); 4.3 The Determination of the Economic World; 4.4 The Properties of the Economic World.

4.5 The Determination of the Individual as aContext Dependent Existence (II)4.6 The Significance of Egoism for theEconomic World; 4.7 The State and Its Relationship to the Market; 4.8 A World 'Beyond' Egoism; 4.9 The Relation of the Economic World toOther Worlds; 5 Conclusion; 6 Bibliography.

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-ce.

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