Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics
Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics
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经济学家创造市场吗？：论经济学的表现性
DOI：
10.5860/choice.45-2137
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Leung Sea Siu
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作者：
D. MacKenzie;Fabian Muniesa;Leung Sea Siu
在地球仪上，经济学家通过说市场在做什么、应该做什么和将要做什么来影响市场。越来越多的实验经济学家甚至在设计真实世界的市场。但是，尽管有这些事实，经济学家在很大程度上仍然被认为是只从外部观察市场的科学家，就像天文学家观察星星一样。经济学家创造市场吗？大胆挑战这一观点。这是第一本专门讨论经济学是否具有表演性这一有争议的问题的书，即在某些情况下，经济学是否真的产生了它所分析的现象。这本书的案例研究包括金融衍生品市场、拍卖频率拍卖和渔业中的个人可转让配额，以一种容易理解的、非技术性的方式为经济学的表演性概念提供了实质内容。有些章节为这一概念辩护，有些则猛烈抨击。本书以一个较长的章节结尾，在这一章节中，这一观点的主要制定者米歇尔·卡伦（Michel Callon）反思了这场争论，并提出了经济学是表演性的这一说法意味着什么。本书对经济学与其所研究的市场的纠缠方式的见解和有力主张应该会引起经济社会学家、经济学家和其他社会科学家的兴趣，并激发他们的兴趣。除了编辑和卡伦之外，撰稿人包括玛丽-弗朗斯·加西亚-帕佩特、弗朗切斯科·瓜拉、伊曼纽尔·迪迪埃、菲利普·米罗斯基、爱德华·尼克-哈、彼得·霍尔姆、彼得-安东宁·利皮奈和蒂莫西·米切尔。
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 markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets? 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.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.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.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 Lepinay, and Timothy Mitchell.