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Economic experts and economic knowledge.

Reay, Michael John.

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Economic experts and economic knowledge.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic experts and economic knowledge./
Author:	Reay, Michael John.
Description:	442 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1142.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125633
ISBN:	0496729223

Economic experts and economic knowledge.
Reay, Michael John.

Economic experts and economic knowledge. - 442 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1142.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.

This is a sociological investigation of the role of expert economic knowledge in the United States at the end of the Twentieth Century. It treats economics as a professional constellation spanning multiple academic, government, and business work arenas, and tries to answer four basic questions; (1) What is the structure of the profession in terms of the number of experts employed in different work arenas? (2) How do economists in these arenas apply different theories in different ways? (3) How does economics maintain its legitimacy as a source of valuable expertise? (4) How and to what extent does such a diverse profession cohere as a single body of experts? To answer these questions it analyses a series of fifty-two semi-structured interviews with experienced economists working in a wide variety of different academic and non-academic settings. These interviews suggest that economic expertise consists primarily of a highly flexible core of microeconomic principles, applied in a 'soft,' framing manner without necessarily supporting any particular empirical claim or policy suggestion. They also suggest that the authority of economics depends mainly on routine acceptance rather than aggressive assertion of scientific credentials. Economists do not derive much legitimacy from claiming to be scientists, and in most settings they think it is neither necessary nor possible to do so. This finding contradicts some assertions commonly made by outside observers, so the analysis also investigates why there might tend to be a disjuncture between the way expert economic knowledge is used and how outsiders perceive it to be used. It identifies four fundamental features of knowledge---distribution, insulation, normalization, and type---which operate at various cognitive, interactional, and institutional levels, and which seem to explain many aspects of how economics is both applied and perceived in social settings. These features of knowledge also help explain how economics manages to cohere as a single discipline despite involving multiple, often incompatible professional practices and experiences. The analysis concludes with a discussion of possible wider applications of these notions of fundamental knowledge features.

ISBN: 0496729223Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017425
Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Economic experts and economic knowledge.
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