2014
DOI: 10.1108/oth-01-2014-0002
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Learning from interacting: language, economics and the entrepreneur

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight by focusing on keywords in the language we use. The language of economics dominates discourse about the economy. Analyzing this discourse from a great variety of perspectives has blossomed but promises much more. The study of the keyword “entrepreneur” illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this diversity of perspectives, and also points to some possible opportunities for enhancing the quality… Show more

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“…the economy): the economy or the market is described as a rational mechanism, using language and metaphors borrowed from nineteenth-century physics (Mirowski, 1991). Since McCloskey's (1983McCloskey's ( , 1995 influential work about the "rhetoric of economics", there has been an intensified debate about the importance of language use for economic processes (Klamer and McCloskey, 1992;Avsar, 2014;O'Rourke, 2014;Ali, 2014) as well as for economic methodology and research (Mäki, 1988;Goldschmidt and Szmrecsanyi, 2007;Hardt, 2014). The role of economists in "making markets" was analyzed in several studies about the "performativity of economics" (MacKenzie and Millo, 2003;MacKenzie et al, 2007).…”
Section: The Interconnectedness Of Political and Discursive Power Balances And The Specific Role Of Languagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…the economy): the economy or the market is described as a rational mechanism, using language and metaphors borrowed from nineteenth-century physics (Mirowski, 1991). Since McCloskey's (1983McCloskey's ( , 1995 influential work about the "rhetoric of economics", there has been an intensified debate about the importance of language use for economic processes (Klamer and McCloskey, 1992;Avsar, 2014;O'Rourke, 2014;Ali, 2014) as well as for economic methodology and research (Mäki, 1988;Goldschmidt and Szmrecsanyi, 2007;Hardt, 2014). The role of economists in "making markets" was analyzed in several studies about the "performativity of economics" (MacKenzie and Millo, 2003;MacKenzie et al, 2007).…”
Section: The Interconnectedness Of Political and Discursive Power Balances And The Specific Role Of Languagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Wang et al 2013), approaches from within economics like that of Samuels (1990) or to more general discourse analytical approaches particularly suitable to analysing economic discourses such as Keller (2011). Where economics discourses interact more broadly with other discourses, DPEE might be better replaced by approaches such as the analysis of the development of specific policies (Hogan and O'Rourke, forthcoming;Plehwe 2011;Crespy and Schmidt 2014), the study of societally important 'keywords' (Durant 2006;Williams 2013;O'Rourke 2014) or the study of discourses more broadly constituted than economic (Du Gay & Salaman 1992;Rose and Miller 2008;McBride and Whiteside 2011). However, Maesse's DPEE adds considerably to our ways of understanding economic expertise discourse and allows further studies of economic experts' performances in the media and in policy formation to draw on rich theoretical resources that Maesse provides.…”
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“…Other work on contributions to the discourse analysis of economic knowledge, specifically economistic understandings (O'Rourke and Hogan 2013;FitzGerald and O'Rourke 2014;O'Rourke 2014), makes one keenly aware of the span of literatures, indicated by the range of sources referenced in the preceding sentences, that have to be engaged with in order to produce the type of work achieved by Maesse.…”
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“…Entrepreneurship research typically draws on concepts which prioritise economic measures (Galloway et al, 2019;O'Rourke, 2014) and the field of nascent entrepreneurship, with its search for explanations for differing start-up rates between countries, follows this pattern (Frederic Delmar & Davidsson, 2000). Furthermore, the pervasive use of human population surveys in the field of nascent entrepreneurship to estimate the prevalence of venture start-up (Reynolds, 2009) fails to consider the antecedents to new venture creation activities (Hopp & Sonderegger, 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, despite substantial developments in the field, it is still dominated by the language and approaches of economics resulting in a narrow perspective of what entrepreneurship entails and who the entrepreneur is (Galloway et al, 2019;O'Rourke, 2014). Neoliberal policy discourses glorify entrepreneurship (Tedmanson, Verduyn, Essers & Gartner, 2012) however in the media the phenomenon is portrayed as both positive (beneficial for the economy) or negative (risky and prone to failure) (Atherton, 2004).…”
Section: Background To the Studymentioning
confidence: 99%