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 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 derivat…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Muniesa, Fabian (Hrsg.) / Siu, Lucia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-13849-7
- EAN: 9780691138497
- Produktnummer: 3829633
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 386 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 620 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 620
Über den Autor
Donald MacKenzie is a professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Fabian Muniesa is a researcher and teacher at the École des Mines de Paris and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. Lucia Siu is a teaching fellow at Hong Kong's Lingnan University.
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