Economics and performativity : (Record no. 72972)

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International Standard Book Number 9781315112077
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Personal name Brisset, Nicolas,
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Title Economics and performativity :
Remainder of title exploring limits, theories and cases /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Nicolas Brisset.
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Edition statement First edition.
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-- Boca Raton, FL :
-- Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,
-- [2018].
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Extent 1 online resource (310 pages) :
Other physical details 34 illustrations.
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-- Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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-- chapter Introduction --
-- chapter PART I: The performativist approach --
-- chapter Introduction to Part I --
-- chapter 1 From language to device: how economics shapes the world --
-- chapter 2 The theory of performativity: a double remoteness --
-- chapter 3 Criticisms of the sociological approach to performativity --
-- chapter Conclusion to Part I --
-- chapter PART II: A conventionalist approach to performativity --
-- chapter Introduction to Part II --
-- chapter 4 Changing perspective: performativity, institutional fact and convention --
-- chapter 5 An ontological focus --
-- chapter Conclusion to Part II --
-- chapter PART III: Three scenes of performativity --
-- chapter Introduction to Part III --
-- chapter 6 Performativity and empiricity: rationality and liberal paternalism --
-- chapter 7 Performativity and self-fulfilment: the case of the /
-- Black-Scholes-Merton equations --
-- chapter 8 A conventional limit to performativity: the example of organ trade --
-- chapter Conclusion to Part III --
-- chapter General conclusion.
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-- Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world. They shape it in the image of their theories and models. This idea, following the philosophy of language, puts forward that economic theories are performative, and not only descriptive. This idea has become a powerful critique of the scientificity of economics since it removes the idea of an external world against which our description could be evaluated as truth. If any theory can become true, there are no true theories per se because there is no such thing as a pre-existing economy to describe. Is such a relativist stance a fatality? This is the question at stake in this book. Furthermore, the author asks if any theory is able to ‘perform’ the social reality, or are there actually some limits to performativity? For philosophers, a performative statement is a statement that cannot fail to mean something, but can fail to do what it calls for. The state of the world may or may not be changed; the performative statement may be happy or unhappy. In economic terms, this can be interpreted as: some theories change the world while some do not. This book argues that this possibility of failure, a perspective previously missing from discussions on the subject, should be at the heart of any definition of failure.Taking on the question of why some theories change the world while others do not, this volume will be of interest to those studying advances courses on the philosophy of economics as well as those studying and researching in the areas of the philosophy of sciences and sociology of science and economics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Performative (Philosophy)
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Taylor and Francis.
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-- Print version:
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-- Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology.
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-- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315112077
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