Economics— and History—as Communicative Action
提出将科学实践重新理解为沟通行动，通过研究跨越学术与大众界限的书籍、小册子和新闻纸的社会生命，考察经济学如何参与大众文化的塑造，对经济学史和传播学研究者有启发。
Historians of economics are helping us understand how economic knowledge is made. In concert with trends from the sociology and history of science, historians meticulously examine the practices of economists. But as they have trained their attention to the scales and sites where those stories are told, historians have lost sight of the travels of knowledge beyond lecture halls and scholarly journal pages. To explore that terrain I propose we reconceive scientific practice as communicative action. By studying the social lives of books, pamphlets, and newsprint that cross back and forth the popular and scholarly divide, we can examine how economics participates in the making of mass culture.