Do economists make markets? : on the performativity of economics / edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu.

Other author MacKenzie, Donald A.
Other author Muniesa, Fabian, 1972-
Other author Siu, Lucia, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionvi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Portion of title On the performativity of economics
Contents 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 Lépinay -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006038670
ISBN9780691130163 (alk. paper)
ISBN0691130167 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HB71 .D55 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold