Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories can Become Self-Fulfilling
探讨社会科学理论如何通过塑造制度、管理实践和社会规范，创造其预测的行为，从而实现自我实现。以经济学语言和假设对管理实践的影响为例，说明理论可能因语言和假设被广泛接受而“获胜”，即使其经验有效性不足。
Social science theories can become self-fulfilling by shaping institutional designs and management practices, as well as social norms and expectations about behavior, thereby creating the behavior they predict. They also perpetuate themselves by promulgating language and assumptions that become widely used and accepted. We illustrate these ideas by considering how the language and assumptions of economics shape management practices: theories can "win" in the marketplace for ideas, independent of their empirical validity, to the extent their assumptions and language become taken for granted and normatively valued, therefore creating conditions that make them come "true."