Power and Influence of Economists: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

ISBN-13: 9780367419844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 276 str.

Jens Maesse; Stephan Pühringer; Thierry Rossier

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Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence.

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1. The role of power in the Social Studies of Economics: an introductionJens Maesse, Stephan Pühringer, Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz Section 1: Economic Knowledge and Discursive Power 2. Performative, imaginary and symbolic power: how economic expert discourses influence societyJens Maesse 3. Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy as Autonomous Domains of Knowledge and Power: Rational Expectations, Monetarism and the Federal ReserveJan Sparsam and Hanno Pahl 4. The power of economics textbooks: shaping meaning and identity Lukas Bäuerle Section 2: Economic Governmentalities 5. The constitution of neoliberal governmentality from early neoclassical economics to public choice theoryCeyhun Gürkan 6. Competitive Power: Elements of Foucauldian EconomicsFlemming Bjerke 7. Feelings in crisis. The emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis prone societyElena Psyllakou 8. Laboratories for economic expertise. Lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics Gerardo C. Nicoletta Section 3: Economists in Networks 9. Who are the economists Germany listens to? The social structure of influential German economistsStephan Pühringer and Karl Beyer 10. Production and Circulation of Global Dominant Ideology: Mexico from the Default Debt Crisis to the Brady Plan (1982-1989)Johanna Gautier Morin 11. Economists in public discourses: The case of wealth and inheritance taxation in the German pressHendrik Theine Section 4: Economics as a Scientific Field 12. Are there institutionalized pathways to the Nobel Prize in economics?Philipp Korom 13. Forms of Social Capital in Economics. The Importance of Heteronomous Networks in the Swiss Field of Economists (1980-2000)Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz 14. Paths of international circulation: how do economists and economic knowledge flow? Elisa Klüger