This contribution provides a brief overview and discussion of the role of experiments in economics. It is argued that economic experiments have convinced economists and the public of the existence of phenomena that have been outside the scope of economics. The success of these experiments is partly due to the performative nature of experiments. To develop this argument, examples of experiments ...

In a context of proliferating crises, from the environment to the economy, the politics and epistemology of “failure” – institutional, human, technological, environmental – is acquiring fresh relevance. Recent analyses in social studies of science and technology, as well as in political and economic sociology, have developed performative perspectives on this issue, and much of this work has foc...

Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local adaptation sea level rise, we show how is translated into self-referential theory focused property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement theorization explain relationship between performativity power w...

Products embody possibilities for performativity in everyday actions. These are eliminated the design process to create usage scenarios. But users interpret product use terms of performativity. Product cases discussed borrowed from performance art literature: iterability, referentiality, delegated performance, as a set task-based instructions outsourced other people, allowing construction, enab...