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Economists and Societies : Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s.
Title:
Economists and Societies : Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s.
Author:
Fourcade, Marion.
ISBN:
9781400833139
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (413 pages)
Series:
Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Economics and Society -- Three Trajectories -- Critical Organized Comparisons -- National Constellations -- The Dialectical Relationship between Culture and Economics -- CHAPTER ONE: Institutional Logics in Comparative Perspective -- Federal Constitutionalism in America -- The Rise and Fall of British Elitism -- The Transformations of French Statism -- Institutional Complementarities and the Coherence of Social Life -- CHAPTER TWO: The United States: Merchant Professionals -- Forms of Academic Entrenchment -- The Meaning of Science in American Economics -- The Academic Roots of Public Expertise -- The Economics Industry -- American Economists, from Professional Scientism to Scientific Professionalism -- CHAPTER THREE: Britain: Public-Minded Elites -- A Late but Extensive Institutionalization -- The Scientific and Moral Transformation of British Economics -- Administrators and Specialists -- Economic Persuasion -- The Waning High Culture of British Economics -- CHAPTER FOUR: France: Statist Divisions -- A Fragmented Academicization -- The Nationalization of Economic Expertise -- The "Administrative Economists" -- The Missing Private Jurisdiction -- Economists as Intellectuals, Intellectuals as Economists -- The Segmented Worlds of French Economics -- CONCLUSION: Economists and Societies -- The Social Structures of Economics in Comparative Perspective -- Contribution of a Sociology of Economic Knowledge to Economic Sociology -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, Marion Fourcade traces the history of economics in each country from the late nineteenth century to the present, demonstrating how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to a distinct professional and disciplinary configuration. She argues that because the substance of political life varied from country to country, people's experience and understanding of the economy, and their political and intellectual battles over it, crystallized in different ways--through scientific and mercantile professionalism in the United States, public-minded elitism in Britain, and statist divisions in France. Fourcade moves past old debates about the relationship between culture and institutions in the production of expert knowledge to show that scientific and practical claims over the economy in these three societies arose from different elites with different intellectual orientations, institutional entanglements, and social purposes. Much more than a history of the economics profession, Economists and Societies is a revealing exploration of American, French, and British society and culture as seen through the lens of their respective economic institutions and the distinctive character of their economic experts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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