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  1. Economics of Convention Meets Foucault

    Abstract: The contribution examines concepts and the methodology of Michel Foucault from the standpoint of the French institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC). EC is briefly introduced. Then, it is argued that Foucault... more

     

    Abstract: The contribution examines concepts and the methodology of Michel Foucault from the standpoint of the French institutionalist approach of economics of convention (in short EC). EC is briefly introduced. Then, it is argued that Foucault should be regarded as an “ally” for EC, because his theory shares main positions with EC, but Foucault also provides concepts and methodological strategies, which could improve EC’s capabilities to analyze practices and strategies of convention-based processes as critique, justification and the social construction of qualities and worth. Some representatives of EC have already adopted Foucaultian concepts. Foucault also pioneered the analysis in domains, highly relevant for EC, as in the field of law and neoliberalism, but these works are not well recognized so far. Moreover, Foucault began the study of individual’s strategies of self-conduct and self-formation, which EC approached later on as well. The article claims that it is especially Foucault’s

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/61225
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    Enthalten in: Historical social research; Mannheim : GESIS, 1979-; 44, Heft 1 (2019), 308-334; Online-Ressource
    DDC Categories: 300; 301
    Other subjects: (thesoz)Dispositiv; (thesoz)Diskursanalyse; (thesoz)Strukturalismus; (thesoz)Methodologie; (thesoz)Gesetzgebung; (thesoz)Recht; (thesoz)soziale Konstruktion; (thesoz)Neoliberalismus; (thesoz)Sozialökonomie; (thesoz)Konvention; (thesoz)Macht; (thesoz)Rechtstheorie; (thesoz)Frankreich; (thesoz)Foucault, M.; economics of convention; discourse; technologies of the self; regimes of engagement; episteme
    Scope: Online-Ressource