Contributed articles. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 15. Counterfeit COIN, and the State of Nature Effect / 1. Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development / Marshall Sahlins. 2. American Power and the New Mandarins Redux: Hegemony, Orthodoxy, and International Relations / Kurt Jacobsen -- 3. Seeing Like an Area Specialist / Bruce Cumings -- 4. Imperialism of Categories: Situating Knowledge in a Globalizing World / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- pt. TWO ANOMALIES: THE USE AND ABUSE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 5. Misuse of Numbers: Audits, Quantification, and the Obfuscation of Politics / Matthew A. Light -- 6. Use and Abuse of Mathematical Economics / Michael Hudson -- 7. Bringing Economics into the Third Millennium / Edward Fullbrook -- pt. THREE PREDICAMENTS: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 8. Power after Nuclear Weapons / Anne I. Harrington -- 9. American Sociology and Colonialism, 1890s -- 1960s / George Steinmetz -- 10. Translating Social Science for China: Qu Qiubai and History's Coffin / Tani Barlow -- 11. Golden Bough at Bretton Woods: Anticipating the Decline and Fall of American Anthropology / Marston H. Morgan -- 12. Beyond National Liberalism: Self-Determination and the World of Pax Americana / John D. Kelly -- pt. FOUR EXPEDITIONS: AFTER REALITY CAPSIZES THEORY -- 13. South Asia and American Power / Lloyd I. Rudolph -- 14. Ghosts of Anticommunism and Neoliberalism: East Asian Studies in the Twenty-First Century / Michael K. Bourdaghs -- 15. Counterfeit COIN, and the State of Nature Effect / Marshall Sahlins.
Summary:
This volume offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana. The thematic image for this enterprise is the 'fiery hunt' for Ahab's whale, which focuses attention on the strange brew of mixed motives for American ventures abroad. The reach of Pax Americana exceeds its grasp, but this verdict requires deeper insight than simply flushing out cultural premises and conceptual limits. The volume's purpose is to understand the USA's 'fiery hunt, ' and thereby to help to end it.
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