Economics and Performativity: Exploring Limits, Theories and Cases

ISBN-13: 9781138083790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 300 str.

Nicolas Brisset

Opis

It has been argued that economic theories are performative, and not only descriptive. Yet, there are issues with the definition of performativity within economics. For philosophers, the possibility of failure is built into their definition of a performative statement, this book argues the idea of failure is key to any definition of performativity.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction.  Part I: The Performativist Approach.  Introduction to Part I.  Chapter 1 From language to device: How economics makes shapes the world.  Chapter 2 The theory of performativity: a double remoteness.  Chapter 3 Criticisms of the sociological approach to performativityConclusion to part I.  Part II: A Conventionalist Approach to Performativity.  Introduction to Part II.  Chapter 4 Changing perspective: performativity, institutional fact and convention.  Chapter 5 An ontological focus.  Conclusion to part II.  Part III: Three Scenes of Performativity.  Introduction to Part III.  Chapter 6 Performativity and empiricity: rationality and liberal paternalism.  Chapter 7 Performativity and self-fulfillment: the case of the Black-Scholes-Merton equations.  Chapter 8 A conventional limit to performativity: the example of organ trade.  Conclusion to part III.  General Conclusion.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Nicolas Brisset is an associate professor at the Université Côte d’Azur (GREDEG-CNRS), France, and　an associate member of the Centre Walras-Pareto of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.　His areas of specialization are the philosophy of social sciences, history of economic thought and economic sociology. More precisely, his research focus on three issues: the interaction between economic theories and social reality; the history of economic thought under the Vichy regime; and the limits of commodification.