Review of \u3cem\u3eEconomics Imperialism versus Multidisciplinarity\u3c/em\u3e

This paper examines the implications of Chicago School economist Edward Lazear’s 2000 defense of economics imperialism using standard trade theory. It associates that defense with interdisciplinarity or the idea that the sciences are relatively autonomous, but treats this defense as a mask for a more conventional imperialist strategy of promoting Chicago School neoclassicism. Lazear’s argument actually created a dilemma for Chicago regarding how it could espouse interdisciplinarity while operating in a contrary way. I argue that the solution to this dilemma was for neoclassicism to rebuild economics imperialism around neoclassicism as a theory that sees the world in its own image in a performative manner. This strategy, however, suffers from a number of problems, which upon examination ultimately lead us to multidisciplinarity or the idea that the sciences can have transformative effects on one another. This latter conception can be associated with a complexity economics approach as an alternative view of the relation between the sciences. The paper argues that this view provides a basis for pluralism in economics

Dance in the British South Asian diaspora: redefining classicism

This paper discusses South Asian dance forms and genres in Britain, one of the major locations of the South Asian diaspora. It addresses issues of "classicism," "neoclassicism" and "contemporaneity" in South Asian dancing, particularly important as in the British context availability of public funding depends on the artists demonstrating an innovative engagement with their own practice. The author focuses, as a specific case study, on the work, Moham, choreographed and danced as a solo by bharatanatyam artist Chitra Sundaram in 2002 and argues for the need to address issues of difference and cultural specificity, questioning the underlying assumptions of western notions of classicism, as these impinge on South Asian dance praxes in the British context

Neoclassicism in British Instrumental Music 1918-45

The early twentieth century saw music fracture into many individual dialects; one of the most significant of these was Neoclassicism. Given that the Neoclassical compositional aesthetic was so significant to early twentieth-century music there is relatively little written on Neoclassicism. While there has been research into the music of some British composers writing between 1918 and 1945 there has been no research into British Neoclassicism, or any attempt to create a universal model to define Neoclassical music. This thesis is an extension of the research carried out in my MA by Thesis Neoclassicism in the Music of William Alwyn which was inspired by his turn to Neoclassicism in 1938, particularly his Divertimento for Solo Flute. It will firstly examine the state of British music in the period 1918-45 to determine the factors influencing British composers to turn to the Neoclassical aesthetic. I will examine the roots of Neoclassicism through the French and German stems together with other manifestations of the style. I will argue that Neoclassicism is an aesthetic which represents a break from the preceding musical tradition since it looks back to pre-Romantic music for inspiration. I will outline a universal model for Neoclassicism which will attempt to reconcile the varying opinion on Neoclassicism by identifying four characteristics: old, new, borrowed, blue (anti-romantic). I will then apply that model to case studies provided by the instrumental music of ten British composers writing between 1918 and 1945. These composers will include those familiar to a general audience, but also those whose music will be less well- known

The Emperor\u27s Clothes

Argues that neoclassical economics is primarily a theory of the human individual in economic life but contemporary mainstream economics does not posses a theory of the human individual. Definition of mainstream economics; Origin of the Enlightenment theory of the individual that came to underlie neoclassical economics at the end of the nineteenth century; Problems in neoclassical economics\u27 treatment of individuals