1st Edition
Power and Influence of Economists Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
1. The role of power in the Social Studies of Economics: an introduction
Jens Maesse, Stephan Pühringer, Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz
Section 1: Economic Knowledge and Discursive Power
2. Performative, imaginary and symbolic power: how economic expert discourses influence society
Jens Maesse
3. Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy as Autonomous Domains of Knowledge and Power: Rational Expectations, Monetarism and the Federal Reserve
Jan Sparsam and Hanno Pahl
4. The power of economics textbooks: shaping meaning and identity
Lukas Bäuerle
Section 2: Economic Governmentalities
5. The constitution of neoliberal governmentality from early neoclassical economics to public choice theory
Ceyhun Gürkan
6. Competitive Power: Elements of Foucauldian Economics
Flemming Bjerke
7. Feelings in crisis. The emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis prone society
Elena Psyllakou
8. Laboratories for economic expertise. Lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics
Gerardo C. Nicoletta
Section 3: Economists in Networks
9. Who are the economists Germany listens to? The social structure of influential German economists
Stephan Pühringer and Karl Beyer
10. Production and Circulation of Global Dominant Ideology: Mexico from the Default Debt Crisis to the Brady Plan (1982-1989)
Johanna Gautier Morin
11. Economists in public discourses: The case of wealth and inheritance taxation in the German press
Hendrik Theine
Section 4: Economics as a Scientific Field
12. Are there institutionalized pathways to the Nobel Prize in economics?
Philipp Korom
13. Forms of Social Capital in Economics. The Importance of Heteronomous Networks in the Swiss Field of Economists (1980-2000)
Thierry Rossier and Pierre Benz
14. Paths of international circulation: how do economists and economic knowledge flow?
Elisa Klüger
Biography
Jens Maesse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany.
Stephan Pühringer is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at the University of Linz, Austria, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics at the Cusanus University of Bernkastel-Kues, Germany.
Thierry Rossier is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Pierre Benz is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland of Lausanne (HETSL | HES-SO), Switzerland.
