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When economics fails to be performative. A case study

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  • Hervé Dumez

    (CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion - X - École polytechnique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Alain Jeunemaitre

    (CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion - X - École polytechnique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Regarding performativity or performation, is economics specific, compared with other social sciences ? This is the question raised by the présentation. To answer the question, the authors rely on the analysis of the restructuring dynamics of the European Air Traffic Management (ATM). Economics has failed in performing the industry. Why ? Economics performation faces an existing device. This device is an hybrid of Law (freedom of flight, prohibition of tolls, prohibition of profit-oriented behaviors) and Engineering (organization of delays when a disequilibrium occurs between supply and demand by means of flow algorithm). The device is rooted in the past (Chicago Convention, 1944). The paper develops research perspectives : Studying competition between devices, between performation processes. In that competition, stressing the role of economics and law : two « analytical-normative » social sciences (law is not a social science as others – Teubner ; Austin & Hart ; nor is economics probably). In studying that competition, particular moments play a role (Foucault : a device is settled at a time of urgency, under pressing motives, then it develops in being given many other functions ; long existing devices can be preferred to new ones, however appealing they may look–remediableness criterion, Williamson).

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  • Hervé Dumez & Alain Jeunemaitre, 2010. "When economics fails to be performative. A case study," Post-Print hal-00555201, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00555201
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    1. Anne-Claire Savy & Malick N’diaye & M.-E. Kessari, 2019. "Does the French apparatus of transition to Circular Economy institutionalise a concept? A transversal discourse analysis [Le dispositif français de transition vers l’économie circulaire institution," Post-Print hal-02070650, HAL.

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