Economists and societies. Discipline and profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s.

Autor/in	Fourcade, Marion
Titel	Economists and societies. Discipline and profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Gesellschaften. Disziplin und Beruf in den USA, Großbritannien und Frankreich 1890 bis 1990.
Quelle	Princeton: Princeton University Press (2009), 388 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Princeton studies in cultural sociology
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-691-14803-8
Schlagwörter	Intelligenz (Soz); Sozialer Faktor; Bürokratie; Elite; Frankreich; Großbritannien; Politik; Politikberatung; Politisches System; Professionalisierung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Berufsbild; USA; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Institutionalisierung; Internationaler Vergleich; Institutionalisierung; Staatstätigkeit; Volkswirt; Akademisierung; Bürokratie; Elite; Politik; Politikberatung; Politisches System; Staatstätigkeit; Marktorientierung; Wirtschaftspolitik; Ökonomisierung; Professionalisierung; Berufsbild; Verwaltungsberuf; Volkswirt; Berufliches Selbstverständnis; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Akademisierung; Verwaltungsberuf; Internationaler Vergleich; 20. Jahrhundert; Tätigkeitsfeld; Frankreich; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	"Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, the author traces the history of economics in each country from the late nineteenth century to the present, demonstrating how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to a distinct professional and disciplinary configuration. She argues that because the substance of political life varied from country to country, people's experience and understanding of the economy, and their political and intellectual battles over it, crystallized in different ways - through scientific and mercantile professionalism in the United States, public-minded elitism in Britain, and statist divisions in France. Fourcade moves past old debates about the relationship between culture and institutions in the production of expert knowledge to show that scientific and practical claims over the economy in these three societies arose from different elites with different intellectual orientations, institutional entanglements, and social purposes. Much more than a history of the economics profession, the book is a revealing exploration of American, French, and British society and culture as seen through the lens of their respective economic institutions and the distinctive character of their economic experts." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: deskriptive Studie; historisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1890 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2