Daniel Breslau
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Breslau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Breslau |
| SIGNATURE | BRESLAU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning by Georg Rilinger
Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning. By Georg Rilinger
Are subsidies market manipulation? The politics of electricity market hybridization in the United States
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Redistributing Agency
The article traces the development of "spot pricing" for electrical power, which has provided the technique for calculating electricity prices in wholesale markets in most of the United States, and is rapidly becoming the standard in many other countries. The model was first formalized by a group of engineers and economists associated with the engineering professor Fred Schweppe, at MIT. From his position as a leading control theorist, well known…
Making an exception: Market design and the politics of re-regulation in the French electricity sector
Science and Culture
Philosophers of the European Enlightenment defined science in opposition to culture or humanistic knowledge. Science was truth based on verifiable observation and certain logical procedures, and thus stood opposed to all traditional beliefs. Francis Bacon, who initiated the philosophical tradition of elaborating “demarcation principles” to distinguish science from nonscience, differentiated science from all knowledge that is based on tradition an…
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy By Allan Mazur Routledge. 2013. 248 pages. $51.95 paper, $155 hardback
The specters of climate change and resource depletion menacing our hydrocarbon-based civilization present comprehensive problems that cannot be reduced to purely technological terms. The energy systems we rely on are embedded in, and reinforced by, an entire way of life. Barriers to massive change in those systems are therefore just as likely to be social, cultural, and institutional as they are technological. And wholesale change in energy syste…
Studying and Doing Energy Transition
Hess, David J. 2012. Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy: Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Verbong, Geert, and Derk Loorbach, eds. 2012. Governing the Energy Transition: Reality, Illusion or Necessity? New York: Routledge
Designing a market-like entity: Economics in the politics of market formation
Recent work on the relationship of economics to economic institutions has argued that economics is constitutive of economic institutions, and of markets in particular. In opposition to economic sociology, which has treated economics as a competing disciplinary frame or an ideology, the ‘performativity’ literature takes economics seriously as a set of market-building practices. This article demonstrates the compatibility of these perspectives by a…
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products
Marketing Models: The Culture of Mathematical Economics
The uncounted: Citizenship and exclusion in the Israeli census of 1948
Previous research on official statistics, and the national census, has established the role of these practices in the construction of modern political institutions, particularly the state and citizenship. Studies have described the use of statistics in transforming a territorial population into a citizenry, but have not examined the role of the census in the exclusion that is an essential element in the constitution of citizenship. Based on a cas…
Rationalizing Strategy: Game Theory in Management Pedagogy and Practice
Since the 1980s, game theory has become a standard feature of management school curricula, treated extensively in textbooks and core courses in managerial economics and competitive strategy. It promises a formal and rational set of procedures for formulating decisions in situations of dynamic interaction. I suggest that the appeal, and key symbolic effect of game theory is not due to its actual influence on the decisions reached. Rather, it is du…
Economics invents the economy: Mathematics, statistics, and models in the work of Irving Fisher and Wesley Mitchell
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 - 23 January 2002)
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 - 23 January 2002)
In Search of the Unequivocal: The Political Economy of Measurement in U.S. Labor Policy
Forbid the Forbidding: A Rejoinder to Andrew Pickering
My essay was written in a conciliatory spirit, to reconcile two only apparently opposed perspectives on the status of the social in science studies, while affirming what I take to be the substantive accomplishments of each. On one hand are the sociologists of scientific knowledge, who have produced some compelling, if incomplete, sociological explanations. No blanket ontological argument about nonhuman agents can undo these achievements. They can…
Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies
The field of science studies is the site of an explicit reflection on the ontological premises of sociology, with rival approaches defined by distinctive ways of specifying the basic constituents of reality. This article takes advantage of this debate to compare three types of ontological schemes in terms of their internal coherence and their consequences for sociology. Sociological humanism-represented by proponents of the sociology of scientifi…
Beyond Metaphor: Mathematical Models in Economics as Empirical Research
The ArgumentWhen economists report on research using mathematical models, they use a literary form similar to the experimental report in the laboratory sciences. This form consists of a narrative of a series of events, with a clear temporal segregation of the agency of the author and the agency of the objects of study. Existing explanations of this literary form treat it as a rhetorical device that either conceals the agency of the author in cons…
Contract Shop Epistemology: Credibility and Problem Construction in Applied Social Science
The use of social scientific expertise in forming state policies alters the social structure of scientific fields in a way that has important cognitive consequences. In particular, it leads to a competition between holders of traditional forms of academic recognition, and those who are distinguished by their administrative capacity and links to state personnel. Controversies over the authoritative measurement of the effects of state social polici…
The political power of research methods: Knowledge regimes in U.S. labor-market policy
Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States.Daniel Lee Kleinman
Economics invents the economy: Mathematics, statistics, and models in the work of Irving Fisher and Wesley Mitchell
Designing a market-like entity: Economics in the politics of market formation
Recent work on the relationship of economics to economic institutions has argued that economics is constitutive of economic institutions, and of markets in particular. In opposition to economic sociology, which has treated economics as a competing disciplinary frame or an ideology, the ‘performativity’ literature takes economics seriously as a set of market-building practices. This article demonstrates the compatibility of these perspectives by a…
The uncounted: Citizenship and exclusion in the Israeli census of 1948
Previous research on official statistics, and the national census, has established the role of these practices in the construction of modern political institutions, particularly the state and citizenship. Studies have described the use of statistics in transforming a territorial population into a citizenry, but have not examined the role of the census in the exclusion that is an essential element in the constitution of citizenship. Based on a cas…
Making an exception: Market design and the politics of re-regulation in the French electricity sector
Contract Shop Epistemology: Credibility and Problem Construction in Applied Social Science
The use of social scientific expertise in forming state policies alters the social structure of scientific fields in a way that has important cognitive consequences. In particular, it leads to a competition between holders of traditional forms of academic recognition, and those who are distinguished by their administrative capacity and links to state personnel. Controversies over the authoritative measurement of the effects of state social polici…
Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies
The field of science studies is the site of an explicit reflection on the ontological premises of sociology, with rival approaches defined by distinctive ways of specifying the basic constituents of reality. This article takes advantage of this debate to compare three types of ontological schemes in terms of their internal coherence and their consequences for sociology. Sociological humanism-represented by proponents of the sociology of scientifi…
The political power of research methods: Knowledge regimes in U.S. labor-market policy
The scientific appropriation of social research: Robert Park's human ecology and American sociology
Marketing Models: The Culture of Mathematical Economics
Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products
Beyond Metaphor: Mathematical Models in Economics as Empirical Research
The ArgumentWhen economists report on research using mathematical models, they use a literary form similar to the experimental report in the laboratory sciences. This form consists of a narrative of a series of events, with a clear temporal segregation of the agency of the author and the agency of the objects of study. Existing explanations of this literary form treat it as a rhetorical device that either conceals the agency of the author in cons…
Robert Park et l'écologie humaine
Robert Park y la ecología humana. La ecología humana desarrollada en Chicago, a la iniciativa de Robert Park, a partir de 1915 ha podido imponerse a costa de una redefinición del campo sociológico y de las condiciones de production de una ciencia social legítima. La reconstruction científica de la disciplina en los Estados Unidos ha sido la obra de universitarios y funcionarios de origen social relativamente bajo que no disponían de la legitimida…
Redistributing Agency
The article traces the development of "spot pricing" for electrical power, which has provided the technique for calculating electricity prices in wholesale markets in most of the United States, and is rapidly becoming the standard in many other countries. The model was first formalized by a group of engineers and economists associated with the engineering professor Fred Schweppe, at MIT. From his position as a leading control theorist, well known…
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 - 23 January 2002)
La science, le sexisme et l'Ecole de Chicago
Breslau Daniel. La science, le sexisme et l'Ecole de Chicago. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 85, novembre 1990. La crise du léninisme. pp. 94-95
L'Ecole de Chicago existe-t-elle
Breslau Daniel. L'Ecole de Chicago existe-t-elle ?. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 74, septembre 1988. Recherches sur la recherche. pp. 64-65
The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy.Yaron Ezrahi
Influence of Simple Computerized Feedback on Prescription Charges in an Ambulatory Clinic: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Pharmaceuticals account for a significant portion of health care costs and are an important target for attempts at cost reductions. While many techniques have been shown effective, most are resource-intensive, have demonstrated fatigue after the intervention is ceased, and have been directed at specific items rather than total charges. The authors designed a computerized program to feed back prescription charges. The intervention is easy to execu…
Academic Group Practice: The Patient??s Perspective
The effect upon patient satisfaction of a reorganization of a traditional medical clinic into a group practice model was examined in a controlled trial in which both patients and physicians were randomized. The group practice model, unlike the traditional clinic, provided decentralized registration, 5 days/week clinic coverage, and night/weekend phone coverage. Residents worked in small groups with an attending physician, a nurse practitioner, an…
Academic Group Practice: The Physicians?? View
In order to evaluate physician response to the reorganization of a traditional medical clinic into a group practice model, a randomized controlled trial was conducted using equivalent groups of patients and physicians. The group practice model, unlike the traditional clinic, provided decentralized registration, 5 days/week clinic coverage, and night/weekend phone coverage. Residents worked in small groups with an attending physician, nurse practi…
Effect of an Academic Group Practice on Patient Show Rates: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Ambulatory medical clinics at academic centers are reputed to be expensive, inefficient, and poorly regarded by the medical residents who staff them. In an effort to address these problems, some centers have reorganized their traditional clinics into group practices. These group practices are thought to be more effective for teaching and providing services than are the traditional clinics. This is a report on the results of a study in which the a…
L'Ecole de Chicago existe-t-elle
Breslau Daniel. L'Ecole de Chicago existe-t-elle ?. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 74, septembre 1988. Recherches sur la recherche. pp. 64-65
Robert Park et l'écologie humaine
Robert Park y la ecología humana. La ecología humana desarrollada en Chicago, a la iniciativa de Robert Park, a partir de 1915 ha podido imponerse a costa de una redefinición del campo sociológico y de las condiciones de production de una ciencia social legítima. La reconstruction científica de la disciplina en los Estados Unidos ha sido la obra de universitarios y funcionarios de origen social relativamente bajo que no disponían de la legitimida…
La science, le sexisme et l'Ecole de Chicago
Breslau Daniel. La science, le sexisme et l'Ecole de Chicago. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 85, novembre 1990. La crise du léninisme. pp. 94-95
Health and Efficiency: A Sociology of Health Economics.Malcolm Ashmore , Michael Mulkay , Trevor Pinch
The scientific appropriation of social research: Robert Park's human ecology and American sociology
The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy.Yaron Ezrahi
The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
Militarism, Imperialism, and Racial Accommodation: An Analysis and Interpretation of the Early Writings of Robert E. Park
Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States.Daniel Lee Kleinman
Contract Shop Epistemology: Credibility and Problem Construction in Applied Social Science
The use of social scientific expertise in forming state policies alters the social structure of scientific fields in a way that has important cognitive consequences. In particular, it leads to a competition between holders of traditional forms of academic recognition, and those who are distinguished by their administrative capacity and links to state personnel. Controversies over the authoritative measurement of the effects of state social polici…
The political power of research methods: Knowledge regimes in U.S. labor-market policy
Beyond Metaphor: Mathematical Models in Economics as Empirical Research
The ArgumentWhen economists report on research using mathematical models, they use a literary form similar to the experimental report in the laboratory sciences. This form consists of a narrative of a series of events, with a clear temporal segregation of the agency of the author and the agency of the objects of study. Existing explanations of this literary form treat it as a rhetorical device that either conceals the agency of the author in cons…
In Search of the Unequivocal: The Political Economy of Measurement in U.S. Labor Policy
Forbid the Forbidding: A Rejoinder to Andrew Pickering
My essay was written in a conciliatory spirit, to reconcile two only apparently opposed perspectives on the status of the social in science studies, while affirming what I take to be the substantive accomplishments of each. On one hand are the sociologists of scientific knowledge, who have produced some compelling, if incomplete, sociological explanations. No blanket ontological argument about nonhuman agents can undo these achievements. They can…
Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies
The field of science studies is the site of an explicit reflection on the ontological premises of sociology, with rival approaches defined by distinctive ways of specifying the basic constituents of reality. This article takes advantage of this debate to compare three types of ontological schemes in terms of their internal coherence and their consequences for sociology. Sociological humanism-represented by proponents of the sociology of scientifi…
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 - 23 January 2002)
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 - 23 January 2002)
Rationalizing Strategy: Game Theory in Management Pedagogy and Practice
Since the 1980s, game theory has become a standard feature of management school curricula, treated extensively in textbooks and core courses in managerial economics and competitive strategy. It promises a formal and rational set of procedures for formulating decisions in situations of dynamic interaction. I suggest that the appeal, and key symbolic effect of game theory is not due to its actual influence on the decisions reached. Rather, it is du…
Economics invents the economy: Mathematics, statistics, and models in the work of Irving Fisher and Wesley Mitchell
The uncounted: Citizenship and exclusion in the Israeli census of 1948
Previous research on official statistics, and the national census, has established the role of these practices in the construction of modern political institutions, particularly the state and citizenship. Studies have described the use of statistics in transforming a territorial population into a citizenry, but have not examined the role of the census in the exclusion that is an essential element in the constitution of citizenship. Based on a cas…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (23 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (7 works)