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Cfp_27th Annual EAEPE Conference, University of Genova, Italy, Research Area [B]: Economic Sociology

27th Annual EAEPE Conference, University of Genova, Italy, 17.-19. September 2015 (http://eaepe.org), Research Area [B]: Economic Sociology. “THE SOCIAL LOGICS OF ECONOMICS” and “ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND HETERODOX ECONOMICS”. By Jens Maesse and Hanno Pahl. For this year’s EAEPE Conference the research area Economic Sociology invites presentations for two sessions covering the following topics/perspectives: Continue reading

Cfp_The social logics of economics. Power, knowledge and practices between academia, the economy and society

The social logics of economics. Power, knowledge and practices between academia, the economy and society. Organized by Jens Maesse and Hanno Pahl Annual EAEPE Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 6-8 November 2014. Deadline: 15.09.2014

Economic knowledge, practices and actors play a central role in the current economic, financial and fiscal crisis. Economics either as academic or as applied knowledge is a resource for the interpretation of the social world as an “economy”. Through this hegemonic position on the definition of “problems”, economics is in a privileged position to deliver “proper solutions”. Thus, how can we explain that the economics profession reached such an exceptional position? What are the social rules that govern economics? In our workshop on the “social logics of economics”, we will discuss and consider the question how economics knowledge is produced, particular academic and scientific practices are institutionalized and discourses circulate. Continue reading

¿Y qué era lo económico de la sociología económica? Notas sobre las sociologías económicas y la teoría de sistemas.

A principios de septiembre la revista MAD-Universidad de Chile publicó un número dedicado en parte a Luhmann y la economía. En este post quisiera compartir un par de reflexiones nacidas de dichas lecturas y socializar también algunas perspectivas que tienen menos circulación en las conversaciones de este blog. Continue reading