Everything in our world can be interpreted as a sign. This opens up the question: How do we proceed from semantics to pragmatics, from theory to practice and vice versa? What is the nature of the relation between interpretation, action and reality? And, what can we learn by viewing economics and the economy through this lens?
This volume gathers together a broad range of scholars in order to address issues relating to the intersection of economics and semiotic theory. Using concepts from the fields of economics and semiotics, the contributors to this volume revisit past and present theories and reinterpret models of thought and expression to show that our preconceptions about the economy can be fruitfully challenged and gain depth through a semiotic lens. The application of the semiotics approach to economics discourse is vital in helping us to examine topics that range from theory and economic history to the development of key economic ideas and concepts. The volume aims to enhance our understanding of how economic agents act, and our conceptualisation of the economy and its cultural products can be reimagined.
This volume will be of great interest to economists, literary scholars and students in the humanities.
Everything in our world can be interpreted as a sign. This opens up the question: How do we proceed from semantics to pragmatics, from theory to practice and vice versa? What is the nature of the relation between interpretation, action and reality? And, what can we learn by viewing economics and the economy through this lens?
Introduction Economics and Semiotics: Charting a relationship Part I:
Semiotic views and the economy
1. The economy of reading: art as cultural
investment
2. The semiotics of taste: Economies of pleasure and consumption
in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, Barthes and Roidis
3. Economics, semiotics, and
psychoanalysis as meaning-making: the case for an interpretive science of
economics.
4. The aura of the original and serial reproduction: The cases of
painting, photography and the digital Part II: Narratives and the role of
language in economic discourse
5. Delving into the effectiveness and limits
of economic rhetoric in 17th-century Spain: On the use and misuse of tropes
in monetary treatises (1600-1642)
6. The role of language in Keynes General
Theory and Sraffas Production of Commodities
7. The received value of names
imposed for signification of things was changed into arbitrary. Troikaspeak
in the age of memoranda. The case of Greece
8. Narratives, sophists,
irrationalism and confusion Part III: Interpretation and meaning in economic
theory
9. The sign in the current of history: a semiotics history of
comparative advantage
10. Is God a mathematical economist? Mathematical
economics, scientific experience and Macro General Equilibrium Models from
the Perspective of the Semiotic Peirce Conjecture
11. The semiotic basis of
financial valuation: A detour through the history of financial ideas
12.
Hermeneutics of Interdependence Index
Stratos Myrogiannis is Adjunct Lecturer, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University.
Constantinos Repapis is Lecturer in Political Economy, Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is also a Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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