Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The role of power in the social studies of economics : an introduction

Part 1. Economic knowledge and discursive power

2. Performative, imaginary and symbolic power : how economic expert discourses influence society

3. Macroeconomics and monetary policy as autonomous domains of knowledge and power : rational expectations, monetarism and the Federal Reserve

4. The power of economics textbooks : shaping meaning and identity

Part 2. Economic governmentalities

5. The constitution of neoliberal governmentality from early neoclassical economics to public choice theory

6. Competitive power : elements of Foucauldian economics

7. Feelings in crisis : the emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis
prone society

8. Laboratories for economic expertise : lay perspectives on Italian disciplinary economics

Part 3. Economists in networks

9. Who are the economists Germany listens to? The social structure of influential German economists

10. Global production and circulation of dominant ideologies : Mexico from the default debt crisis to the
Brady Plan (1982-1989)

11. Economists in public discourses : the case of wealth and inheritance taxation in the German press

Part 4. Economics as a scientific field

12. Are there institutionalized pathways to the Nobel Prize in economics?

13. Forms of social capital in economics : the importance of heteronomous networks in the Swiss field of
economists (1980-2000)

14. Paths of international circulation : how do economists and economic knowledge flow?