Fourcade Economists and Societies

Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3313-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 38, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fourcade, Marion

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Preface xi

List of Abbreviations xix

Introduction: Economics and Society 1

Three Trajectories 7

Critical Organized Comparisons 12

National Constellations 15

The Dialectical Relationship between Culture and Economics 28

Chapter One: Institutional Logics in Comparative Perspective 31

Federal Constitutionalism in America 32

The Rise and Fall of British Elitism 40

The Transformations of French Statism 50

Institutional Complementarities and the Coherence of Social Life 59

Chapter Two: The United States: Merchant Professionals 61

Forms of Academic Entrenchment 63

The Meaning of Science in American Economics 77

The Academic Roots of Public Expertise 96

The Economics Industry 114

American Economists, from Professional Scientism

to Scientific Professionalism 125

Chapter Three: Britain: Public-Minded Elites 129

A Late but Extensive Institutionalization 131

The Scientific and Moral Transformation of British Economics 148

Administrators and Specialists 163

Economic Persuasion 175

The Waning High Culture of British Economics 183

Chapter Four: France: Statist Divisions 185

A Fragmented Academicization 187

The Nationalization of Economic Expertise 203

The "Administrative Economists" 215

The Missing Private Jurisdiction 225

Economists as Intellectuals, Intellectuals as Economists 230

The Segmented Worlds of French Economics 234

Conclusion: Economists and Societies 237

The Social Structures of Economics in Comparative Perspective 241

Contribution of a Sociology of Economic Knowledge to

Economic Sociology 261

Appendix 263

Notes 269

References 315

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

Marion Fourcade is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.