Power and Influence of Economists: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of contributors 1 The role of power in the social studies of economics: an introduction Part 1 Economic knowledge and discursive power 2 Performative, imaginary and symbolic power: how economic expert discourses influence society 3 Macroeconomics and monetary policy as autonomous domains of knowledge and power: rational expectations, monetarism and the Federal Reserve 4 The power of economics textbooks: shaping meaning and identity Part 2 Economic governmentalities 5 The constitution of neoliberal governmentality from early neoclassical economics to public choice theory 6 Competitive power: elements of Foucauldian economics 7 Feelings in crisis: the emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis prone society 8 Laboratories for economic expertise: lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics Part 3 Economists in networks 9 Who are the economists Germany listens to? The social structure of influential German economists 10 Global production and circulation of dominant ideologies: Mexico from the default debt crisis to the Brady Plan (1982–1989) 11 Economists in public discourses: the case of wealth and inheritance taxation in the German press Part 4 Economics as a scientific field 12 Are there institutionalized pathways to the Nobel Prize in economics? 13 Forms of social capital in economics: the importance of heteronomous networks in the Swiss field of economists (1980–2000) 14 Paths of international circulation: how do economists and economic knowledge flow? Index