Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
Reihe: Perspectives from Social Economics
ISBN: 978-1-349-69681-9
Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
In this volume, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues underlying the discussion of performativity by scrutinizing its potential over a variety of disciplinary contexts. The authors evaluate the concept of performativity as a theoretical resource by applying it in diverse and heterogeneous fields of research ranging from Luhmann's social systems theory to Descola's anthropology. At stake in this research is not only the notorious relationship between 'theory' and 'reality', but also strategies of rethinking the original concept of performativity (as formulated by Callon and MacKenzie) and reflection on its significance within broader disciplinary fields such as sociology (in general) and philosophy of economics.
From this strongly interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss how the performativity program can be developed to enhance its relevance for contemporary economic theory, theory of finance, macroeconomics, game theory, business ethics, and mechanism design. These efforts may help us to discover and more comprehensively understand the logic of our post-crisis, market-oriented society, eventually leading to more reflexive, responsible, and humanistic economics.
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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