"Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Maesse, Jens (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge frontiers of political economy
Schlagworte:	Business & Economics BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics Economists Power (Social sciences) Economics > Political aspects Economics > Sociological aspects Gesellschaft Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Einfluss Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	"Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence. The contributors to this book explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from different disciplinary and national perspectives. Four different analytical views on the role of power and economics are taken: first, the role of economic expert discourses as power devices for the formation of influential expertise; second, the logics and modalities of governmentality that produce power/knowledge apparatuses between science and society; third, economists as involved in networks between academia, politics and the media; and forth, economics considered as a social field, including questions of legitimacy and unequal relations between economists based on the detention of various capitals. The volume includes case studies on a variety of national configurations of economics, such as the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico and Brazil, as well as international spaces and organisations such as the IMF. This book provides innovative research perspectives for students and scholars of heterodox economics, cultural political economy, sociology of professions, network studies, and the social studies of power, discourse and knowledge. 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"--
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ISBN:	036781708X 1000222233 1000222241 100022225X 9780367817084 9781000222234 9781000222241 9781000222258
Zugangseinschränkungen:	Open Access