TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of Enacting Dismal Science
T2 - New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics, edited by Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, vii + 206 pp.
AU - Kuchař, Pavel
PY - 2017/12/22
Y1 - 2017/12/22
N2 - Economics, as the volume editors Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova submit, does not merely describe or explain, but also actively shapes—“performs”—the economy. This is how we may understand the performativity-of-economics thesis: Economists shape markets either directly,through the design of theories and policies based on them;or indirectly, through shaping cognitive infrastructures that economic agents use to make economic calculations, buy,and sell.
AB - Economics, as the volume editors Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova submit, does not merely describe or explain, but also actively shapes—“performs”—the economy. This is how we may understand the performativity-of-economics thesis: Economists shape markets either directly,through the design of theories and policies based on them;or indirectly, through shaping cognitive infrastructures that economic agents use to make economic calculations, buy,and sell.
U2 - 10.23941/ejpe.v10i2.311
DO - 10.23941/ejpe.v10i2.311
M3 - Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
SN - 1876-9098
VL - 10
SP - 103
EP - 109
JO - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
JF - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
IS - 2
ER -