Haiku Economics, No. 2

Author: Ziliak, Stephen

Source: Rethinking Marxism, Volume 17, Number 4, October 2005 , pp. 567-569(3)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Haiku is walking quietly with a big stick or swinging wildly with a quiet calm. Simplicity and speed are the strengths of haiku, courted by prudence. Haiku is about getting things done, sizing things up, getting thee on. Economics is by contrast, even in Marxian hands, the science of prudence—the socially legitimizing grammar of what's low-cost, what's efficient. “Haiku economics” may then serve a purpose. As if economics were so efficient.

Keywords: Haiku; Economics; Poetry

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935690500241501

Publication date: 2005-10-01

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