Reflexivity in Economics

Seminar with Philip Mirowski and Jakob Vestergård Jørgensen arranged by Center for Knowledge Governance.

Programme:

1:00 - 2:30 Phil Mirowski: Markets come to bits - Evolution, Computation and the Future of Economic Science.

Discussant: Richard N. Langlois

2:30-2:45 Coffee break

2:45-3:30 Jakob Vestergård Jørgensen: Economics As Discourse Revisited - Beyond McCloskey’s rhetorical programme with Foucaultian governmentality analysis

About the presenters:

Phil Mirowski is the Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. The author of such books as Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (2001), More Heat Than Light (1989), and Against Mechanicism (1988), Mirowski has been characterized as the most exciting and one of the most provocative modern historians of economic thought.

Jakob Vestergård Jørgensen is a PhD student at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, CBS. His work has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

This is the third at a series of seminars on the notion of reflexivity. Previous speakers have included Steve Fuller and John Davis.

Participation is free and open for all.

Kind regards

Center for Knowledge Governance