Do Economists Make Markets? : : On the Performativity of Economics / / ed. by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, Lucia Siu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Callon, Michel,; Didier, Emmanuel,; Garcia-Parpet, Marie-France,; Guala, Francesco,; Holm, Petter,; Lépinay, Vincent-Antonin,; MacKenzie, Donald,; Mirowski, Philip,; Mitchell, Timothy,; Muniesa, Fabian,; Nik-Khah, Edward,; Siu, Lucia,
• HerausgeberIn: MacKenzie, Donald,; Muniesa, Fabian,; Siu, Lucia,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 6 halftones. 11 line illus. 6 tables.

Around 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 ma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations, Boxes, and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne
• Chapter 3. Is Economics Performative? Option Theory and the Construction of Derivatives Markets
• Chapter 4. Decoding Finance: Articulation and Liquidity around a Trading Room
• Chapter 5. How to Do Things with Experimental Economics
• Chapter 6. Economic Experiments and the Construction of Markets
• Chapter 7. Markets Made Flesh: Performativity, and a Problem in Science Studies, Augmented with Consideration of the FCC Auctions
• Chapter 8. Which Way Is Up on Callon?
• Chapter 9. The Properties of Markets
• Chapter 10. Do Statistics "Perform" the Economy?
• Chapter 11. What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative?
• List of Contributors
• Index