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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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Author:   Ivan Boldyrev ,  Ekaterina Svetlova
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349958429

ISBN 10:   1349958425
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. After the Turn: How the Performativity of Economics Matters (Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova).- 2. Performativity Rationalized (Francesco Guala).- 3. Performative Mechanisms (Carsten Hermann-Pillath).- 4. ‘Doing’ Laboratory Experiments: An Ethnomethodological Study of the Performative Practice of Behavioral Economic Research (Juliane Böhme).- 5. The Problem with Economics: Naturalism, Critique, and Performativity (Fabian Muniesa).- 6. Performativity Matters: Economic Description as a Moral Problem (Philip Roscoe).- 7. The IS-LMization of the General Theory and the Construction of Hydraulic Governability in Postwar Keynesian Macroeconomics (Hanno Pahl and Jan Sparsam).- 8. Performativity and the Emergence of Institutions (Ekaterina Svetlova).               

Reviews

Enacting Dismal Science aims at bringing together sociologists, philosophers, and economists to give an overview of `what has happened in performativity research in the last year' ... . Indeed, the volume's strength is in combining theoretical and empirical contributions that give readers a good sense of this fast-growing, cross-disciplinary field, including the various lines of (at times fierce) criticism that has been directed against it. (Benjamin Braun, Economic Sociology, The European Electronic Newsletter, Vol. 18 (3), July, 2017) Boldyrev and Svetlova have set out a challenging and important task to push forward the dispersed streams of thought on performativity of economics. While this volume offers a solid reconstruction of the historical origins of the concept ... . (Pavel Kuchar, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Vol.10 (2), Fall, 2017) This book ... provides new important tools for inquiring into that notion, called performativity... . The book's title contains the word `enacting', as the mechanism of enaction is considered a pivotal performative mechanism ... . it emphasizes that the study of performativity constitutes a real opportunity for economics. (Enrico Petracca, History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 25 (3), 2017)

Author Information

Ivan Boldyrev is Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Russia, and Research Associate at the Witten Institute for Institutional Change at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. His books include Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries and Hegel, Institutions and Economics (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath). He has authored many articles focusing on the intellectual history of economics, philosophy of the social sciences, and German Idealism. Ekaterina Svetlova is a Senior Lecturer of Accounting and Finance at the University of Leicester’s School of Management, UK. Previously, she has been a Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Constance, Germany; Zeppelin University, Germany; and University of Basel, Switzerland. She also worked as a Portfolio Manager and Financial Analyst at a big investment company in Frankfurt, Germany, for six years. Svetlova has published on themes such as economic sociology, social studies of finance, and economic philosophy in journals that include Economy and Society, Culture and Organization, Science in Context, Synthese and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.            

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