Enacting Dismal Science

Author : Ivan Boldyrev,Ekaterina Svetlova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137488763

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Enacting Dismal Science by Ivan Boldyrev,Ekaterina Svetlova Pdf

In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questions: What precise meaning can we attribute to the notion of performativity? What empirical evidence can help us recognize economics as performative? And what consequences does performativity have for contemporary societies? The contributions demonstrate how performativity can serve as a powerful conceptual resource in dealing with economic knowledge, as an inspiring framework for investigating performative practices, and as an engine of discovery for thinking of the economic proper.

Author : Michiru Nagatsu,Attilia Ruzzene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474248761

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Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science by Michiru Nagatsu,Attilia Ruzzene Pdf

How should we theorize about the social world? How can we integrate theories, models and approaches from seemingly incompatible disciplines? Does theory affect social reality? This state-of-the-art collection addresses contemporary methodological questions and interdisciplinary developments in the philosophy of social science. Facilitating a mutually enriching dialogue, chapters by leading social scientists are followed by critical evaluations from philosophers of social science. This exchange showcases recent major theoretical and methodological breakthroughs and challenges in the social sciences, as well as fruitful ways in which the analytic tools developed in philosophy of science can be applied to understand these advancements. The volume covers a diverse range of principles, methods, innovations and applications, including scientific and methodological pluralism, performativity of theories, causal inferences and applications of social science to policy and business. Taking a practice-orientated and interactive approach, it offers a new philosophy of social science grounded in and relevant to the emerging social science practice.

Author : Frédéric Basso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031549717

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Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing by Frédéric Basso Pdf

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198891796

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Speculative Time by Paul Crosthwaite Pdf

Speculative Time examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, and on important aspects of visual representation.

Author : Charles Lowe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110746402

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Self-Fulfilling Science by Charles Lowe Pdf

Claims that science may becoming 'self-fulfilling' through its impact on objects of study have recently risen to prominence. Despite radical statements about the supposed consequences of such accounts, however, the central notion of scientific self-fulfillment has remained obscure, leading to skewed views of its actual prevalence and significance. Self-Fulfilling Science illuminates this underexplored phenomenon, drawing on insights from philosophy of science to address questions of its conceptualization, prevalence, and significance. The book critically engages with the popular notion that economic theories of homo economicus exhibit self-fulfillment, and explores its relevance to various metaphysical, ethical, and epistemic issues. Extreme claims of fundamental incompatibility with our usual notions of scientific success are ill-founded. Instead, self-fulfillment’s true epistemic significance lies in more local, nuanced philosophical issues such as theory evaluation and the thesis of underdetermination. In presenting a novel framework, this book facilitates deeper engagement with the developing field of self-fulfilling science, and is of interest to philosophers of science, social scientists, and social constructionists.

Author : Daniel Neyland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030005788

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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm by Daniel Neyland Pdf

This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF...THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation. Here the algorithm must prove its ability to get a grip on everyday life if it is to become an ordinary feature of the settings where it is being put to work. Through investigating the everyday life of the algorithm, the book opens a conversation with existing social science research that tends to focus on the power and opacity of algorithms. In this book we have unique access to the algorithm’s design, development and testing, but can also bear witness to its fragility and dependency on others.

Author : Toshiji Kawagoe,Hirokazu Takizawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811360657

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Diversity of Experimental Methods in Economics by Toshiji Kawagoe,Hirokazu Takizawa Pdf

This is the first book that examines the diverse range of experimental methods currently being used in the social sciences, gathering contributions by working economists engaged in experimentation, as well as by a political scientist, psychologists and philosophers of the social sciences. Until the mid-twentieth century, most economists believed that experiments in the economic sciences were impossible. But that’s hardly the case today, as evinced by the fact that Vernon Smith, an experimental economist, and Daniel Kahneman, a behavioral economist, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. However, the current use of experimental methods in economics is more diverse than is usually assumed. As the concept of experimentation underwent considerable abstraction throughout the twentieth century, the areas of the social sciences in which experiments are applied are expanding, creating renewed interest in, and multifaceted debates on, the way experimental methods are used. This book sheds new light on the diversity of experimental methodologies used in the social sciences. The topics covered include historical insights into the evolution of experimental methods; the necessary “performativity” of experiments, i.e., the dynamic interaction with the social contexts in which they are embedded; the application of causal inferences in the social sciences; a comparison of laboratory, field, and natural experiments; and the recent use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development economics. Several chapters also deal with the latest heated debates, such as those concerning the use of the random lottery method in laboratory experiments.

Author : Conrad Heilmann,Julian Reiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317578055

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The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics by Conrad Heilmann,Julian Reiss Pdf

The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry. It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities for cross-fertilization. Comprising 35 chapters by a diverse team of contributors from all over the globe, the Handbook is divided into eight sections: I. Rationality II. Cooperation and Interaction III. Methodology IV. Values V. Causality and Explanation VI. Experimentation and Simulation VII. Evidence VIII. Policy The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in economics and philosophy who are interested in exploring the interconnections between the two disciplines. It is also a valuable resource for those in related fields like political science, sociology, and the humanities.

Author : Andrej Zwitter,Oskar J. Gstrein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800887374

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Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence by Andrej Zwitter,Oskar J. Gstrein Pdf

Drawing on the theoretical debates, practical applications, and sectoral approaches in the field, this ground-breaking Handbook unpacks the political and regulatory developments in AI and big data governance. Covering the political implications of big data and AI on international relations, as well as emerging initiatives for legal regulation, it provides an accessible overview of ongoing data science discourses in politics, law and governance. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Bruce Caldwell,John Davis,Uskali Mäki,Esther-Mirjam Sent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000637939

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Methodology and History of Economics by Bruce Caldwell,John Davis,Uskali Mäki,Esther-Mirjam Sent Pdf

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics. The papers in this volume fall into four parts, each devoted to an important theme in Wade Hands’ work. The first part explores the influence and scope of Reflection without Rules, capturing the rich debate that the book generated about what guides methodological and philosophical thinking in economics. The second part examines Hands’ research on Paul Samuelson’s economics and the methodological dimensions of Samuelson’s thinking. Part three looks to Hands’ long-standing interest in the philosophical foundations of pragmatist thinking. The final part addresses his more recent research in the methodological import of the emergence of behavioural economics. Together, the contributors show how Hands’ insights in complexity theory, identity, and stratification are key to understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal how his willingness to draw from multiple academic disciplines gives us a platform for interrogating mainstream economics and provides the basis for a humane yet scientific alternative. This unique volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers across social economics, history of economic thought, economic methodology, political economy, and philosophy of social science.

Author : Ekaterina Svetlova
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784710026

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Financial Models and Society by Ekaterina Svetlova Pdf

This innovative book employs the social studies of finance approach which aims to enhance the dialogue between finance and sociology by addressing the blind spots of economic and financial theories. In so doing, it challenges the accusations made towards financial models in the aftermath of the last economic crisis and argues that they cannot be condemned indiscriminately. Their influence on markets and society is not straightforward, but determined by the many ways in which models are created and then used. Ekaterina Svetlova analyses the various patterns of the application of models in asset management, risk management and financial engineering to demonstrate that their power is far more fragile than widespread criticism would indicate.

Author : Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Christian Hederer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000819670

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A New Principles of Economics by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Christian Hederer Pdf

Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have hardly changed, resulting in economics being criticised for its inability to provide relevant insights on global challenges. In response, this book defines new principles of economics and seeks to establish economics as the science of markets. A New Principles of Economics provides an alternative conceptual framework for the study of economics, integrating recent developments and research in both economics and neighbouring social sciences. Adopting the structure of a standard principles text, it separates the study of markets as mechanisms and markets in their wider contexts. In doing so, a number of new perspectives are introduced, including approaching the economy as part and parcel of the Earth system; directly connecting the analysis of production with an analysis of technology and thermodynamic principles; explicitly treating markets as forms of social networks mediated by the institution of money; and reinstating the central role of distribution in political economy analysis. Drawing on the latest theories and research on the economy, and including both the natural and social sciences, this text provides a holistic introduction suitable for postgraduates and other advanced students.

Author : Cristina Neesham,Markus Reihlen,Dennis Schoeneborn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030766061

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Handbook of Philosophy of Management by Cristina Neesham,Markus Reihlen,Dennis Schoeneborn Pdf

The Handbook of Philosophy of Management addresses the philosophical foundations of management in theory and practice. It covers established branches of philosophy, such as aesthetics, epistemology, moral philosophy, political and social philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of practice, and philosophy of science. The Handbook’s broad scope maps out the field and provides a forum where philosophy can be meaningfully applied to the study of management in all its forms. The original, peer-reviewed research published here sheds new light on the complexities of management theory and practice, beyond what hitherto has been possible with the sole application of the social sciences. As philosophy provides a meta-framework for moving beyond paradigm fragmentation within management research and education, this allows researchers and practitioners to find harmony (and discord) in the perspectives revealed by a philosophical lens.

Author : Eelke de Jong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000476484

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Economic Ideas, Policy and National Culture by Eelke de Jong Pdf

All human beings develop a certain view on the world. Inhabitants of the same country are likely to develop similar worldviews. The common part of these views constitutes the country’s national culture. Consequently, academic economists, policymakers, and the population at large are consistently exposed to the same opinions on the preferred way of organizing an economy. This book explores the economic impacts of these shared cultural values, focusing on the economies of the United States of America, Germany, and France. These three countries broadly represent three different types of economic organization and their corresponding economic ideologies: a free market economy, a coordinated market economy, and a hierarchical market economy. The contributors to this edited volume have examined the extent to which the shared worldviews between academic economists, policymakers, and the wider population impact these economies. In particular, the chapters investigate the consequences for the design of the labor market, the financial system, competition policy, and monetary policy. The work also explores the extent to which the shared views on national culture and economic systems and policies in these countries contribute to the population’s well-being overall. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on comparative economics, economic policy, well-being and cultural economics.

Author : Jens Maesse,Stephan Pühringer,Thierry Rossier,Pierre Benz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000222234

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Power and Influence of Economists by Jens Maesse,Stephan Pühringer,Thierry Rossier,Pierre Benz Pdf

Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence. The contributors to this book explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from different disciplinary and national perspectives. Four different analytical views on the role of power and economics are taken: first, the role of economic expert discourses as power devices for the formation of influential expertise; second, the logics and modalities of governmentality that produce power/knowledge apparatuses between science and society; third, economists as involved in networks between academia, politics and the media; and forth, economics considered as a social field, including questions of legitimacy and unequal relations between economists based on the detention of various capitals. The volume includes case studies on a variety of national configurations of economics, such as the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico and Brazil, as well as international spaces and organisations such as the IMF. This book provides innovative research perspectives for students and scholars of heterodox economics, cultural political economy, sociology of professions, network studies, and the social studies of power, discourse and knowledge. “The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780367817084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”