Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs and benefits of key economic policies in the postcolonial era using a psychoanalytical framework.

While there are psychoanalytic studies of the economy and finance from a western perspective, there ha...