ABSTRACT
The problem of performativity in economic reality has been addressed in a variety of styles and ways. A list-like review of the literature broadly reveals narratives of economic rationalization and capitalistic development, philosophical interpretations of economic institutions, studies on the use and effects of economic sciences, critical accounts of the history and operation of the notion of the economy, sociological analyses of the practices of marketing, and investigations on management and accounting at work. Historians, sociologists and anthropologists of science and technology have contributed consistently to our understanding of the role of economics in the constitution and transformation of economic things. Timothy Mitchell is perhaps among the most visible advocates of the study of the economy as both an artefact of and vehicle for colonial and neocolonial ventures. The empirical investigations of Donald MacKenzie and Yuval Millo on the history of pricing models and the construction of North American markets for financial derivative contracts constitute a remarkable contribution.
