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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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