Enacting Dismal Science

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questions: What precise meaning can we attribute to the notion of performativity? What empirical evidence can help us recognize economics as performative? And what consequences does performativity have for contemporary societies? The contributions demonstrate how performativity can serve as a powerful conceptual resource in dealing with economic knowledge, as an inspiring framework for investigating performative practices, and as an engine of discovery for thinking of the economic proper. From this strongly interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss how the performativity program can be developed to enhance its relevance for contemporary economic theory, theory of finance, macroeconomics, game theory, business ethics, and mechanism design. These efforts may help us to discover and more comprehensively understand the logic of our post-crisis, market-oriented society, eventually leading to more reflexive, responsible, and humanistic economics.

• Curatore: Ivan Boldyrev, Ekaterina Svetlova
• Anno edizione: 2016
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781137488763

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