Economics as social engineering? Questioning the performativity thesis

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-1000

  Santos, Ana C ^a   Rodrigues, João ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auctions; Experiments; Market mechanisms; Performativity

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ECONOMICS; MARKET DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 69949133998     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/ben058     Document Type: Article

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