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The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity

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  • Fabian Muniesa

    (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech)

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Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.

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  • Fabian Muniesa, 2010. "The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity," CSI Working Papers Series 020, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech.
    • Handle: RePEc:emn:wpaper:020
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    1. Wilshusen, Peter R., 2019. "Environmental governance in motion: Practices of assemblage and the political performativity of economistic conservation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 1-1.
    2. Taylor C. Nelms, 2012. "The Zombie Bank And The Magic Of Finance," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 231-246, May.

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    Keywords

    Performativity; naturalism; critique; economics; science studies; anthropology; thought experiments;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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