Economics as social engineering? Questioning the performativity thesis
审视了米歇尔·卡隆的绩效性论题，该论题认为经济理论可通过构建变为现实，但研究发现现有证据不足以支持这一观点，经济学在市场构建中仅起松散作用。
The social engineering ambitions of economics have never been so high. Economists are increasingly invited to construct markets from scratch or to design mechanisms that mimic the market. Science students take these social engineering efforts as evidence for the capacity of economists to make the economy more like its description in economic theories. This paper scrutinises one such viewpoint. It examines Michel Callon's performativity thesis that presents the stronger stance regarding the impact of economics on the economy-economic theory can be made true by construction. It concludes that the research carried out thus far fails to support this thesis. It has shown that economics, understood in a very loose sense, has an active role in market building.