Enacting Dismal Science New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boldyrev, Ivan (Editor), Svetlova, Ekaterina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Perspectives from Social Economics
• Subjects: Ethics.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Anthropology.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economic Systems.

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...

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. .