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Enacting Dismal Science: New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics

By Ivan Boldyrev , Ekaterina Svetlova (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-49210-4, 978-1-137-48876-3
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-48876-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2752975 bytes)
Series
Perspectives from Social Economics
Edition
1
Pages
VII, 206\211
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematica

Description

In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questions: What precise meaning can we attribute to the notion of performativity? What empirical evidence can help us recognize economics as performative? And what consequences does performativity have for contemporary societies? The contributions demonstrate how performativity can serve as a powerful conceptual resource in dealing with economic knowledge, as an inspiring framework for investigating performative practices, and as an engine of discovery for thinking of the economic proper.

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