Power and Influence of Economists

Jens Maesse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany. Stephan Pühringer is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at the University of Linz, Austria, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics at the Cusanus University of Bernkastel-Kues, Germany.Thierry Rossier is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.Pierre Benz is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland of Lausanne (HETSL | HES-SO), Switzerland.

• (1) The role of power in the Social Studies of Economics: an introduction  Section 1: Economic Knowledge and Discursive Power  (2) Performative, imaginary and symbolic power: how economic expert discourses influence society  (3) Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy as Autonomous Domains of Knowledge and Power: Rational Expectations, Monetarism and the Federal Reserve  (4) The power of economics textbooks: shaping meaning and identity  Section 2: Economic Governmentalities  (5) The constitution of neoliberal governmentality from early neoclassical economics to public choice theory  (6) Competitive Power: Elements of Foucauldian Economics  (7) Feelings in crisis. The emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis prone society  (8) Laboratories for economic expertise. Lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics  Section 3: Economists in Networks  (9) Who are the economists Germany listens to? The social structure of influential German economists  (10) Production and Circulation of Global Dominant Ideology: Mexico from the Default Debt Crisis to the Brady Plan (1982-1989)  (11) Economists in public discourses:  The case of wealth and inheritance taxation in the German press  Section 4: Economics as a Scientific Field  (12) Are there institutionalized pathways to the Nobel Prize in economics?  (13) Forms of Social Capital in Economics. The Importance of Heteronomous Networks in the Swiss Field of Economists (1980-2000)  (14) Paths of international circulation: how do economists and economic knowledge flow?

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