Drawing the histories of economic representation and romantic responses into the same frame, The Known Economy explains why celebrants and critics of globalization share the same underlying view of the world. The book explores the colonial development of national accounting and the way gender is built in to economic representation.

Colin Danby received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997 and is currently Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. He has published articles in Post Keynesian theory, Feminist Economics, and Economic Anthropology.

Preface and acknowledgments

Introduction: Sarkozy versus GDP

Part 1: The Voice of Economy

Introduction to Part I

1. Love or Money

2. A Jewish Economy in Palestine

3. Body of the Nation

4. Shape of the World

5. Discovering Economies in British Africa

6. The IMF Makes the World

Part 2: Romantic Responses

Introduction to Part Two

7. Romantic Political Economy

8. Shock of the Modern

9. Jameson's Postmodern

10. Spirit of Finance

Part 3: Opening Up

11. Time and Finance

12. Numbered Things