ABSTRACT

We argue that in a core–periphery economic world economics imperialism as advanced by the postwar Chicago School and economic imperialism led by the economies of the north are two sides of the same coin. We first review the parallelism between postwar capitalism’s core–periphery expansion of the north into the south and the Chicago theory of economics imperialism. We then distinguish four forms of relationships between different disciplines, and using Rodrik’s augmented global capitalism trilemma argue Chicago adopts his Golden Straitjacket pathway, both for north–south capitalist expansion and core mainstream economics’ orientation toward other social science disciplines. The paper then uses Ricardo’s classic theory of rising rents to argue the Golden Straitjacket pathway is self-undermining for both, because it produces costly rising inframarginal rents in the north economies associated with financialization and in Chicago economics associated with its defense against other disciplines’ reverse imperialisms. We conclude that long-term forces operating on global economic development and the evolution of the social sciences suggest an alternative pathway for both that would produce a more pluralistic world economy and a more pluralistic economics.

摘要

我们认为，在一个核心-边缘经济世界经济中，战后芝加哥学派和经济学派所提倡的帝国主义以北方经济为首的帝国主义是同一枚硬币的两个侧面。我们首先回顾战后资本主义从北方向南方的核心-边缘扩张与芝加哥经济帝国主义理论之间的相似性。然后，我们区分不同学科之间的四种形式的关系，并利用罗德里克的增强型全球资本主义三难困境论证芝加哥采用了他的金色紧身衣路径，既用于南北资本主义扩张，又用于核心主流经济学对其他社会科学学科的定位。然后，该论文使用李嘉图的经典租金上涨理论来论证黄金紧身衣路径对双方来说都是自我破坏的，因为它在与金融化相关的北方经济体和与防御其他学科的逆向帝国主义相关的芝加哥经济学中产生了代价高昂的超边际租金。我们的结论是，影响全球经济发展和社会科学发展的长期力量表明了一条替代途径，将产生更加多元化的世界经济和更加多元化的经济学。