Historical Social Research/ Historische Sozialforschung HSR Vol. 36 (2011) No. 4 – Special Issue: Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective
Special Issue:Rainer Diaz-Bone & Robert Salais (Eds.): Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
360 pages.
The French approach of “économie des conventions” (economics of convention, EC) today is one of the most important strands of the new pragmatic turn in social sciences. Here the concept of convention is used to analyze different forms of collective coordination under the conditions of uncertainty, of incomplete rules and of contingent quality definitions. Conventions are pragmatic assumptions that actors make in interacting with others and they assumed these conventions to be shared in situations. Conventions evolve as solutions to problems of coordination. In a society, conventions constitute a repertory of action registers, to which the building of institutions borrows for grounding and stabilizing collective action and cognition.
Today, EC is the only institutional approach in social sciences which was developed in a real cooperation between economists, sociologists, and historians. From a historical perspective the analysis of the emergence and of the change of conventional foundations of social coordination has been proved seminal to historical research in almost three decades.
The special issue of HSR assembles articles of international scholars who apply this approach to historical analysis and demonstrate the conceptual as well as the methodological potential of EC in the field of economic history.
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CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE:Rainer Diaz-Bone & Robert Salais (Eds.): Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive
EDITORIAL Rainer Diaz-Bone & Robert Salais Economics of Convention and the History of Economies. Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach in Economic History. Seite 7
CONTRIBUTIONS
Rainer Diaz-Bone The Methodological Standpoint of the “économie des conventions”. Seite 43
Alain Desrosières The Economics of Convention and Statistics: The Paradox of Origins. Seite 64
Claire Judde de Larivière & Georges Hanne Occupational Naming Conventions: Historicity, Actors, Interactions. Seite 82
Bert De Munck Guilds, Product Quality and Intrinsic Value. Towards a History of Conventions? Seite 103
Christof Jeggle Pre-industrial Worlds of Production: Conventions, Institutions and Organizations. Seite 125
Philippe Minard Micro-Economics of Quality and Social Construction of the Market: Disputes Among the London Leather Trades in the Eighteenth-Century. Seite 150
Jürgen Kädtler Financialisation of Capitalist Economies – Bargaining on Conventional Economic Rationalities. Seite 169
Laurent Thévenot Conventions for Measuring and Questioning Policies. The Case of 50 Years of Policy Evaluations through a Statistical Survey. Seite 192
Robert Salais Labour-Related Conventions and Configurations of Meaning: France, Germany and Great Britain prior to the Second World War. Seite 218
MIXED ISSUE
ARTICLES
Karen Henwood, Nick Pidgeon, Karen Parkhill & Peter Simmons Researching Risk: Narrative, Biography, Subjectivity. Seite 251
Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams & Arthur P. Bochner Autoethnography: An Overview. Seite 273
Mary M. Gergen & Kenneth J. Gergen Performative Social Science and Psychology. Seite 291
Franz Breuer The “Other” Speaks Up. When Social Science (Re)presentations Provoke Reactance from the Field. Seite 300
CLIOMETRICS
Jean Luc Demeulemeester & Claude Diebolt Education and Growth: What Links for Which Policy? Seite 323
Claude Diebolt Robert Fogel: Spiritual Son of Simon Kuznets and Master in Cliometrics. Seite 347