Introduction

Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 1-19

  Mackenzie, Donald ^a   Muniesa, Fabian ^b   Siu, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE DE SOCIOLOGIE DE L INNOVATION   (France)

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