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100 1 _aBrisset, Nicolas,
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245 1 0 _aEconomics and performativity :
_bexploring limits, theories and cases /
_cby Nicolas Brisset.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 4 _c©2019.
264 1 _aBoca Raton, FL :
_bRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,
_c[2018].
300 _a1 online resource (310 pages) :
_b34 illustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOutstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
505 0 0 _tchapter Introduction --
_tchapter PART I: The performativist approach --
_tchapter Introduction to Part I --
_tchapter 1 From language to device: how economics shapes the world --
_tchapter 2 The theory of performativity: a double remoteness --
_tchapter 3 Criticisms of the sociological approach to performativity --
_tchapter Conclusion to Part I --
_tchapter PART II: A conventionalist approach to performativity --
_tchapter Introduction to Part II --
_tchapter 4 Changing perspective: performativity, institutional fact and convention --
_tchapter 5 An ontological focus --
_tchapter Conclusion to Part II --
_tchapter PART III: Three scenes of performativity --
_tchapter Introduction to Part III --
_tchapter 6 Performativity and empiricity: rationality and liberal paternalism --
_tchapter 7 Performativity and self-fulfilment: the case of the /
_rBlack-Scholes-Merton equations --
_tchapter 8 A conventional limit to performativity: the example of organ trade --
_tchapter Conclusion to Part III --
_tchapter General conclusion.
520 3 _aEconomists 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.
650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory.
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650 0 _aEconomics
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aPerformative (Philosophy)
710 2 _aTaylor and Francis.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781138083790
_w(DLC) 2018012136
830 0 _aRoutledge INEM advances in economic methodology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315112077
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