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Discourses, Conventions, and Critique - Perspectives of the Institutionalist Approach of the Economics of Convention
Diskurse, Konventionen und Kritik - Perspektiven des institutionalistischen Ansatzes des Economie des conventions
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Abstract The institutionalist approach of economics of conventions (EC) was developed in France in the last decades and recombines pragmatist and structuralist concepts. In EC, conventions are not regarded as institutions, but are conceived as interpretative frames how to interpret the meaning of institution... view more
The institutionalist approach of economics of conventions (EC) was developed in France in the last decades and recombines pragmatist and structuralist concepts. In EC, conventions are not regarded as institutions, but are conceived as interpretative frames how to interpret the meaning of institutions and situations, and how to handle institutions in situations of coordination. The difference between institutions and conventions offers space for “critical movements” and can implement a tension as well as an infrastructure for critique. The article introduces main concepts of EC, which could be applied to the analysis of social critique. In fact, the pragmatist analysis of critical moments and practices of justification was one of the birth moments of EC and EC has developed strategies to analyze and explain social change. The article presents some newer reflections of EC on power and dispositive. Furthermore, the article relates the Foucaultian notions of discourse and power to EC’s analysis of critique and social change. Finally, a current strand of EC research is discussed, which is the study and cri-tique of neoliberalism and the role of the state.... view less
Keywords
critical theory; institution; dispositif; power; discourse; Foucault, M.; institutionalization; discourse theory; neoliberalism; privatization; economic sociology; social change; theory formation
Classification
General Concepts, Major Hypotheses and Major Theories in the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
Economics of convention; dispositive; institutional analysis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 79-96
Journal
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 3
Issue topic
Critique and Social Change: Historical, Cultural, and Institutional Perspectives
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.79-96
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed