Do economists make markets ? [Texte imprimé] : on the performativity of economics / edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu, Monographie imprimée

Secondary Author: MacKenzie, Donald A., 1950-...., Editeur scientifique;Muniesa, Fabian, 1972-...., Editeur scientifique;Siu, Lucia, 1971-...., Editeur scientifiqueLanguage: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis, GrandeBretagne.Publication : Princeton, Oxford : Princeton University press, cop. 2007Description: 1 vol. (VI-373 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-0-691-13016-3; 0-691-13016-7; 978-0-691-13849-7.Dewey: 381, 22Abstract: Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets ? boldly challenges this view. It is the first book dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative - of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes. The book's case studies - including financial derivatives markets, telecommunications - frequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheries - give substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way. Some chapters defend the notion ; others attack it vigorously. The book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interest - and provoke - economic sociologists, economists, and other social scientists..Bibliography: Bibliogr. en fin de chap. Index.Subject - Topical Name: Économie de marché | Économie politique
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Bibliogr. en fin de chap. Index

Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets ? boldly challenges this view. It is the first book dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative - of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes. The book's case studies - including financial derivatives markets, telecommunications - frequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheries - give substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way. Some chapters defend the notion ; others attack it vigorously. The book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interest - and provoke - economic sociologists, economists, and other social scientists.

Introduction / Donald Mackenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu The social construction of a perfect market : the strawberry auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne / Marie-France Garcia-Parpet Is economics performative ? Option theory and the construction of derivatives markets / Donald Mackenzie Decoding finance : articulation and liquidity around a trading room / Vincent-Antonin Lepinay How to do things with experimental economics / Francesco Guala Economic experiments and the construction of markets / Fabian Muniesa and Michel Callon Markets made flesh : performativity, and a problem in science studies augmented with consideration of the FCC auctions / Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah Which way is up on Callon ? / Petter Holm The properties of markets / Timothy Mitchell Do statistics "perform" the economy ? / Emmanuel Didier What does it mean to say that economics is performative ? / Michel Callon

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