The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity
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Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.Download Info
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Paper provided by Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech in its series CSI Working Papers Series with number 020.
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Length: 21 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2010
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Keywords: Performativity; naturalism; critique; economics; science studies; anthropology; thought experiments;Other versions of this item:
- Fabian Muniesa, 2010. "The problem with economics: naturalism, critique and performativity," Post-Print halshs-00450346, HAL.
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- 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
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- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification
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