Seeing like an economist
Using the case of Dutch healthcare reform to bring professions and their epistemologies back in the field of new economic sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewald Engelen (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Mayra Mosciaro (0000-0001-6734-6741, University of Amsterdam), Maria Kaika (0000-0001-8678-3082, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 909-934 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwad005 |
| OpenAlex | W4321435830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
The article scrutinizes the Dutch healthcare market system to provide empirical grounding to the debates around the extent to which rationally constructed markets can develop as originally planned. Focusing on one specific pricing device, we document how the perceived economic 'rationalities' embedded in its design are challenged by the unforeseen and unanticipated 'irrationalities' of daily practices. We trace how healthcare professionals developed informal ways to adapt to the rules and expectations embedded in that device, resulting in forms of 'counter performativity' that threaten the quality and accessibility of Dutch healthcare. The main theoretical contribution of the article is to bridge the gap between 'Actor Network Theory-based economic sociology' and its emphasis on (counter-) performativity and the agency of devices with the older European continental inflections building on Weber, Durkheim and Bourdieu, by drawing attention to the distinct epistemologies of different professions, using insights from James Scott and the sociology of the professions
Actor–network theory · Agency (philosophy · Economic sociology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Health care · Industrial sociology · Medical sociology · Network theory · Performativity · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Management and Organizational Studies · Gender Studies · Law
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The System of Professions
An Engine, Not a Camera
What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative
The Right to Health and the Privatization of National Health Systems
Making Hospitals Governable
How Finance Penetrates its Other
The Dynamics of the Dutch Health Care System--A Discourse Analysis
Power through, over and in ideas
Typologies of Democratic Systems
Competition in the Wild
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Legal Irritants
Immanent Critique as the Core of Critical Theory
The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action
Variegated neoliberalization
Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics
The Superiority of Economists
An Introduction to Market Devices
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
How many cases do I need
From Authoritarian Liberalism to Economic Technocracy
Where Do Markets Come From
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |