Michael Reay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Reay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Reay |
| SIGNATURE | REAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Economics
The modern discipline of economics is dominated by an orthodox/mainstream approach that uses statistics, mathematical models, and experiments to explain human behavior in terms of rational utility maximization. It focuses on industrialized nations where economic activity is based on wage labor and commodity markets, and it tries to explain both individual decisions and larger patterns of employment and production. It has been more involved than o…
Humor
Humor receives little attention in the social sciences relative to how often it appears in human interactions. It involves a wide range of phenomena at various levels of institutionalization, from accidental occurrences, through deliberate actions such as teasing and witty banter, to formal comedic performances, images and texts. Work in a number of disciplines suggests that it is typically caused by incongruous or contradictory experiences, that…
Using "Wild" Laughter to Explore the Social Sources of Humor
Analyses of the multiple cognitive structures and social effects of humor seldom look at why these tend to center on particular topics. The puzzle of how humor can be highly varied yet somehow constrained by its source “material” is explored using a corpus of over 600 incidents, not of deliberate jokes, but of the “wilder,” unplanned laughter that occurred during a set of interviews with economists—professionals who at the time (1999–2000) enjoye…
The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy
The Power of Scientific Knowledge argues against “linear-rational” models of scientific expertise—notions that scientific knowledge originates with academics and then radiates into the real world on the basis of its objective merits. Against such a simple picture, Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr focus on the fact that there are actually numerous important types of experts involved in the influence of science and that its uptake depends crucially …
What were they thinking? The Federal Reserve in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008 financial crisis? Using a wide range of Fed document…
The Flexible Unity of Economics
In an increasingly knowledge-based global environment, American-style economics may be an especially important form of expertise to understand. Existing studies of the discipline present something of a paradox, however, as some suggest that economic discourse is a logically unified and powerful promarket ideology, while others indicate that in practice it is quite fragmented and constrained. A series of 52 interviews with economists working in va…
Humor
Humor receives little attention in the social sciences compared to how commonly it appears in human interactions. It involves a very wide range of phenomena, but existing work in a number of disciplines suggests that it is caused by sudden experiences of incongruity during interactions, and that it has consequences for social identity and power. Both of these features make humor potentially relevant to sociology
Economics
Economics as a modern discipline focuses primarily on systems of money‐coordinated exchange and wage‐based production. Since the early twentieth century it has been dominated by the use of mathematical models and quantitative data to explore markets , i.e., the aggregate outcomes of individual actors' decisions to buy and sell various commodities
The Flexible Unity of Economics
In an increasingly knowledge-based global environment, American-style economics may be an especially important form of expertise to understand. Existing studies of the discipline present something of a paradox, however, as some suggest that economic discourse is a logically unified and powerful promarket ideology, while others indicate that in practice it is quite fragmented and constrained. A series of 52 interviews with economists working in va…
What were they thinking? The Federal Reserve in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008 financial crisis? Using a wide range of Fed document…
Economics
Economics as a modern discipline focuses primarily on systems of money‐coordinated exchange and wage‐based production. Since the early twentieth century it has been dominated by the use of mathematical models and quantitative data to explore markets , i.e., the aggregate outcomes of individual actors' decisions to buy and sell various commodities
Humor
Humor receives little attention in the social sciences compared to how commonly it appears in human interactions. It involves a very wide range of phenomena, but existing work in a number of disciplines suggests that it is caused by sudden experiences of incongruity during interactions, and that it has consequences for social identity and power. Both of these features make humor potentially relevant to sociology
The Flexible Unity of Economics
In an increasingly knowledge-based global environment, American-style economics may be an especially important form of expertise to understand. Existing studies of the discipline present something of a paradox, however, as some suggest that economic discourse is a logically unified and powerful promarket ideology, while others indicate that in practice it is quite fragmented and constrained. A series of 52 interviews with economists working in va…
What were they thinking? The Federal Reserve in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008 financial crisis? Using a wide range of Fed document…
Using "Wild" Laughter to Explore the Social Sources of Humor
Analyses of the multiple cognitive structures and social effects of humor seldom look at why these tend to center on particular topics. The puzzle of how humor can be highly varied yet somehow constrained by its source “material” is explored using a corpus of over 600 incidents, not of deliberate jokes, but of the “wilder,” unplanned laughter that occurred during a set of interviews with economists—professionals who at the time (1999–2000) enjoye…
The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy
The Power of Scientific Knowledge argues against “linear-rational” models of scientific expertise—notions that scientific knowledge originates with academics and then radiates into the real world on the basis of its objective merits. Against such a simple picture, Reiner Grundmann and Nico Stehr focus on the fact that there are actually numerous important types of experts involved in the influence of science and that its uptake depends crucially …
Economics
The modern discipline of economics is dominated by an orthodox/mainstream approach that uses statistics, mathematical models, and experiments to explain human behavior in terms of rational utility maximization. It focuses on industrialized nations where economic activity is based on wage labor and commodity markets, and it tries to explain both individual decisions and larger patterns of employment and production. It has been more involved than o…
Humor
Humor receives little attention in the social sciences relative to how often it appears in human interactions. It involves a wide range of phenomena at various levels of institutionalization, from accidental occurrences, through deliberate actions such as teasing and witty banter, to formal comedic performances, images and texts. Work in a number of disciplines suggests that it is typically caused by incongruous or contradictory experiences, that…
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)