Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas,
consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an
external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative
fashion, what they refer to?
"
The Provoked Economy" tackles this question from a pragmatist
angle, considering economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked
reality. It takes the reader through a series of diverse empirical
sites from public administrations to stock exchanges, from
investment banks to marketing facilities and business schools in
order to explore what can be seen from such a demanding standpoint.
It demonstrates that descriptions of economic objects do actually
produce economic objects and that the simulacrum of an economic act
is indeed a form of realization. It also shows that provoking
economic reality means facing practical tests in which what ought
to be economic or not is subject to elaboration and
controversy.
This book opens paths for empirical investigation in the social
sciences, but also for the philosophical renewal of the critique of
economic reality. It will be useful for students and scholars in
social theory, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and
economics."
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