UID:
almahu_9949865924902882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 300 pages).
ISBN:
9781315112077
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1315112078
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9781351620949
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1351620940
Series Statement:
Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology
Note:
Economics and Performativity- Front Cover; Economics and Performativity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Economics and economy: what is performativity?; Theorising both the failure and the success of performativity; Method of analysis; PART I: The performativist approach; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1: From language to device: how economics shapes the world; From philosophy of language to social sciences; Bruno Latour on science in action; From science to social; From the social to the performative: an approach through the device
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Conclusion: two types of performativityNotes; Chapter 2: The theory of performativity: a double remoteness; First remoteness: economic sociology and social embeddedness; Economic sociology: the market as a social structure and the enrichment of Homo economicus; Second remoteness: from the standard approaches to the social influence of economic theories; Two examples of double fractures; Polanyi and The Great Transformation; Conclusion: macro-social entities versus devices; Notes; Chapter 3: Criticisms of the sociological approach to performativity
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Recurring criticism of the notion of performativityThe heart of the problem: relativism; Conclusion: the problem of counterperformativity; Notes; Conclusion to Part I; PART II: A conventionalist approach to performativity; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4: Changing perspective: performativity, institutional fact and convention; Social reality according to John Searle; Assignment of function and performativity; Assignment of function and limits of performativity; Beyond Searle: performativity as a conventional process; Homomorphism between convention and a definition of theory
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Conclusion: a conventionalist approachNotes; Chapter 5: An ontological focus; The origins of the concept of the emergent effect; Criticism of the notion of emergence; Institutions and epistemological irreducibility: how to endogenise the rules; From epistemological emergence to ontological emergence; Emergent effects and performativity; Notes; Conclusion to Part II; PART III: Three scenes of performativity; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 6: Performativity and empiricity: rationality and liberal paternalism; Performing by rationality; Liberal paternalism; Conclusion; Notes
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Chapter 7: Performativity and self-fulfilment: the case of the Black-Scholes-Merton equationsFinancial phenomena and performativity: the Black-Scholes-Merton case; Stochastic norm and resistance of financial phenomena; Leptokurticity as a limit for performativity; Nuancing performativity; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: A conventional limit to performativity: the example of organ trade; Transplantation and organ commerce; Performativity and the organ market; Conventional incompatibility; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion to Part III; General conclusion; Note; Bibliography; Index
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Translated from the French.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Brisset, Nicolas, 1986- Economics and performativity. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138083790
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315112077
