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The Provoked Economy : Economic Reality and the Performative Turn.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (171 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135089955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/6
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I The problem of performativity -- 1 A few theoretical rudiments -- The performative turn in the social sciences -- Four distinctive philosophical problems -- 2 The consideration of economic reality -- Studies in the constitution of economic things -- Economic naturalism against the practice of economizing -- PART II Elementary case studies -- 3 Recounting financial objects -- The investment bank as a puzzle -- The back office and the trouble with finalization -- Processing descriptions through the banking space -- Singular objects and written confirmations -- The valuation of financial objects as a problem of description -- Technocratic mastery and back office intricacy -- 4 Discovering stock prices -- Making market perfection algorithmically explicit -- Potential, real, virtual and actual prices -- The trouble with second-order transparency -- Provoking prices of particular kinds -- 5 Testing consumer preferences -- Performativity and the marketing simulacrum -- Taming the test, taming the market -- Becoming a measuring instrument -- The experience of elicitation as provocation -- The sociology of market testing -- 6 Realizing business value -- The hermeneutics of the business subject -- The object of valuation and the intuition of capitalization -- 7 Indicating economic action -- Masses of performance targets and indicators -- Political or economic action -- Quantifying scientific production -- Indicating an economic effect -- Provoking a state of economy -- Tentative conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Do instruments 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.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I The problem of performativity -- 1 A few theoretical rudiments -- The performative turn in the social sciences -- Four distinctive philosophical problems -- 2 The consideration of economic reality -- Studies in the constitution of economic things -- Economic naturalism against the practice of economizing -- PART II Elementary case studies -- 3 Recounting financial objects -- The investment bank as a puzzle -- The back office and the trouble with finalization -- Processing descriptions through the banking space -- Singular objects and written confirmations -- The valuation of financial objects as a problem of description -- Technocratic mastery and back office intricacy -- 4 Discovering stock prices -- Making market perfection algorithmically explicit -- Potential, real, virtual and actual prices -- The trouble with second-order transparency -- Provoking prices of particular kinds -- 5 Testing consumer preferences -- Performativity and the marketing simulacrum -- Taming the test, taming the market -- Becoming a measuring instrument -- The experience of elicitation as provocation -- The sociology of market testing -- 6 Realizing business value -- The hermeneutics of the business subject -- The object of valuation and the intuition of capitalization -- 7 Indicating economic action -- Masses of performance targets and indicators -- Political or economic action -- Quantifying scientific production -- Indicating an economic effect -- Provoking a state of economy -- Tentative conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Do instruments 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.

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