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Do economists make markets? : on the performativity of economics /

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 ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: MacKenzie, Donald A. (Editor ), Muniesa, Fabian, 1972- (Editor ), Siu, Lucia, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Boxes, and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne
  • Chapter 3. Is Economics Performative? Option Theory and the Construction of Derivatives Markets
  • Chapter 4. Decoding Finance: Articulation and Liquidity around a Trading Room
  • Chapter 5. How to Do Things with Experimental Economics
  • Chapter 6. Economic Experiments and the Construction of Markets
  • Chapter 7. Markets Made Flesh: Performativity, and a Problem in Science Studies, Augmented with Consideration of the FCC Auctions
  • Chapter 8. Which Way Is Up on Callon?
  • Chapter 9. The Properties of Markets
  • Chapter 10. Do Statistics "Perform" the Economy?
  • Chapter 11. What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative?
  • List of Contributors
  • Index