Laboratories for economic expertise: Lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367817084-10" target="_blank" >10.4324/9780367817084-10</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Laboratories for economic expertise: Lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics
Original language description
Analyzing three Italian historical experiences as laboratories of transnational networks of disciplinary economics, this chapter deals with the contingent and the (con)textual character of the power of economics, starting from its relationship with the object of its discursive and practical interventions: laypeople. This fundamental relational dimension, source of economists' power in the global political economy, is often underestimated by current social studies on economics, which implicitly assume a self-referential and autopoietic foundation of this power. Conversely, combining discursive political economy, sociologies of expertise and transnational historical sociology, this contribution analyzes economic expertise as a complex network of practices, discourses and institutions constantly and strategically deployed to deal with socio-political contingencies. Our lay perspective on Italian experience proposes a socio-historical understanding of economist's apparently neutral set of governmental practices. In this light, measurements, operative tools and conceptual apparatuses can be interpreted as practical and discursive interventions shaping strategically specific epistemic regimes and relational fields aiming to separate organizational and material issues from popular control and marginalizing possible alternatives so to get population and territories in line with socio-technical divisions of labour.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Power and influence of economists: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
ISBN
978-0-367-41984-4
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
126-143
Number of pages of the book
276
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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