Showing posts with label performativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performativity. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

"Reviews of Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation, In Journal of Cultural Economy

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 Here's a set of brief reactions to Michel Callon 's book Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. The...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Interviews with school choice stakeholders

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 Here's a paper about school choice in New Orleans, organized around interviews with New Orleans "Experts and Administrators" ...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Are sociology and economics coming closer together? Philippe Steiner in Acta Oeconomica

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 Professor Philippe Steiner , of the Groupe d’Etudes des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne, thinks that these days sociology...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

The design and performation of markets: a discussion, by Michel Callon and Alvin Roth in the AMS Review

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 The AMS Review , a journal of the American Marketing Society, has put together an issue on the theory of markets.  When I was approached by...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Philippe Steiner on matching and romance, and transplants

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  The French economic sociologist Philippe Steiner, who studies (among other things) how markets and gift giving can coexist, has a short p...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Sociology of high frequency trading

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The Journal Economy and Society has a special issue on  Cultures of High-Frequency Trading , which includes the following articles: Cu...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Is market design like synthetic biology?

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Synthetic biology is concerned with the creation of new kinds of cells and organisms, and an interesting blog post by the economic sociolog...
Friday, September 6, 2013

A sociologist looks at the design of electricity capacity markets

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The discussion among sociologists of the "performativity" of economics is taking more sophisticated note of market design.  Here&...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

The economics of designing markets, and the sociology of "civilizing" them

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Jose Ossandon emailed me to alert me about his thoughtful blog post comparing some developments in market design and in the sociology of ma...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Performativity as a critique of economics and market design

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Yesterday's prize to Paul Milgrom for his work in market design (among other things) brings to mind a curious critique (and criticism) ...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

A heterodox economist looks (disapprovingly) at market design

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Ana Santos writes, not-entirely-unsympathetically, about choice architecture and market design, based on her reading of Thaler and Sunstein...
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