{"product_id":"do-economists-make-markets-on-the-performativity-of-economics-9780691138497","title":"Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eAround 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. \u003ci\u003eDo Economists Make Markets?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Lépinay, and Timothy Mitchell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.28w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald MacKenzie\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAn Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eFabian Muniesa\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher and teacher at the École des Mines de Paris and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. \u003cb\u003eLucia Siu\u003c\/b\u003e is a teaching fellow at Hong Kong's Lingnan University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43750553845875,"sku":"9.78069E+12","price":73.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d55c3b28-67d2-45fd-bc36-f855eeceb1a4.jpg?v=1756465220","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/do-economists-make-markets-on-the-performativity-of-economics-9780691138497","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}