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Economists and societies: discipline and profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s

Marion Fourcade
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page vii)
  • List of Tables (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xix)
  • INTRODUCTION Economics and Society (page 1)
    • Three Trajectories (page 7)
    • Critical Organized Comparisons (page 12)
    • National Constellations (page 15)
    • The Dialectical Relationship between Culture and Economics (page 28)
  • CHAPTER ONE Institutional Logics in Comparative Perspective (page 31)
    • Federal Constitutionalism in America (page 32)
    • The Rise and Fall of British Elitism (page 40)
    • The Transformation of French Statism (page 50)
    • Institutional Complementarities and the Coherence of Social Life (page 59)
  • CHAPTER TWO The United States: Merchant Professionals (page 61)
    • Forms of Academic Entrenchment (page 63)
    • The Meaning of Science in American Economics (page 77)
    • The Academic Roots of Public Expertise (page 96)
    • The Economics Industry (page 114)
    • American Economists, from Professional Scientism to Scientific Professionalism (page 125)
  • CHAPTER THREE Britain: Public-Minded Elites (page 129)
    • A Late but Extensive Institutionalization (page 131)
    • The Scientific and Moral Transformation of British Economics (page 148)
    • Administrators and Specialists (page 163)
    • Economic Persuasion (page 175)
    • The Waning High Culture of British Economics (page 183)
  • CHAPTER FOUR France: Statist Divisions (page 185)
    • A Fragmented Academicization (page 187)
    • The Nationalization of Economic Expertise (page 203)
    • The "Administrative Economists" (page 215)
    • The Missing Private Jurisdiction (page 225)
    • Economists as Intellectuals, Intellectuals as Economists (page 230)
    • The Segmented Worlds of French Economics (page 234)
  • CONCLUSION: Economists and Societies (page 237)
    • The Social Structures of Economics in Comparative Perspective (page 241)
    • Contribution of a Sociology of Economic Knowledge to Economic Sociology (page 261)
  • Appendix (page 263)
  • Notes (page 269)
  • References (page 315)
  • Index (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJS 115.5 (Mar. 2010): 1608-1610 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/652931
BHR 84.1 (Spr. 2010): 135-137 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20743873
EHR 64.1 (Feb. 2011): 349-350 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27919525
SOCF 27.2 (Jun. 2012): 535-538 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23262121
CS 41.5 (Sep. 2012): 588-591 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41722906
CS 41.4 (Jul. 2012): 430-437 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23212077
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691117607 (hardcover)
  • 9780691148038 (paper)
  • 9781400833139 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Sociology
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