{"product_id":"do-economists-make-markets-on-the-performativity-of-economics-paperback","title":"Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald MacKenzie\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFabian Muniesa\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSiu Leung-Sea\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. \u003ci\u003eDo Economists Make Markets?\u003c\/i\u003e boldly challenges this view. It is the first book dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative--of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book's case studies--including financial derivatives markets, telecommunications-frequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheries--give substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way. Some chapters defend the notion; others attack it vigorously. The book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interest--and provoke--economic sociologists, economists, and other social scientists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In addition to the editors and Callon, the contributors include Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, Francesco Guala, Emmanuel Didier, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah, Petter Holm, Vincent-Antonin L pinay, and Timothy Mitchell.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This excellent collection gathers the very best work on the fascinating topic of performativity in economics. The book offers articulate presentations of a wide range of different views--not only pro and con, but various pros and cons. It is as important as it is likely to be controversial.\"\u003cb\u003e--Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDo Economists Make Markets?\u003c\/i\u003e contains a number of truly excellent and thought-provoking studies, including the most important statement in English on economic performativity by the theory's inventor, Michel Callon.\"\u003cb\u003e--Richard Swedberg, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an absolutely terrific volume. Built on a rich and varied set of empirical studies of how economic technologies 'perform the world, ' \u003ci\u003eDo Economists Make Markets?\u003c\/i\u003e establishes the 'science studies' approach to markets as a valid alternative, and in some cases as a complement, to more conventional approaches in economic sociology. It breathes new life into the study of economics by offering a stimulating account of the complex ways in which economists, economic machines, and society co-constitute one another.\"\u003cb\u003e--Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald MacKenzie\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAn Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eFabian Muniesa\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher and teacher at the École des Mines de Paris and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. \u003cb\u003eLucia Siu\u003c\/b\u003e is a teaching fellow at Hong Kong's Lingnan University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.9 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776385745184,"sku":"9780691138497","price":116.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4a1d8ba9fd19d01b144e5d6cc23e95de.webp?v=1780478560","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/do-economists-make-markets-on-the-performativity-of-economics-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}