TAILIEUCHUNG - A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 32

C H A P T E R T H I R T Y - T W O Textuality and the History of Economics: Intention and Meaning To say that studying the history of economics involves interpreting economics works and associated archival materials that were written in the past may seem uncontroversial, but such an apparently simple formulation | CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Textuality and the History of Economics Intention and Meaning Vivienne Brown Introduction To say that studying the history of economics involves interpreting economics works and associated archival materials that were written in the past may seem uncontroversial but such an apparently simple formulation of what is done in studying the history of economics is far from straightforward. Issues of interpretation have been the subject of intense debate over recent decades and these debates have spanned at least philosophy literary theory history and cultural studies. This essay will focus on just one aspect of these debates by engaging with arguments about the objective of reconstructing the author s intended meaning and it will relate these arguments to the notions of text and textuality. Given the high opportunity costs of engagement in such apparently arcane theoretical debate economists may well wonder whether there is any particular potential payoff for their understanding of the history of their own discipline. A presupposition of this essay is that these theoretical debates do have something to contribute to the history of economics in helping to explain how different interpretations of the same works keep being produced and so have implications for the ways in which the history of economics may be understood. It is a commonsense presupposition that correctly interpreting a work gives us the meaning that its author intended correctly reading Adam Smith s works for example gives us the meaning that Smith intended. To query this commonsense presupposition may seem to some to imply that we have already crossed the Rubicon that separates rational from irrational discourse but two questions may be raised at this stage which should caution against such a hasty conclusion. Textuality and the History of Economics 539 First to what extent is it to be expected that the history of economics should be characterized by a high or increasing degree of .

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