Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 17 (2010) 3, pp. 241-260
What makes institutions 'real'? One central notion has been emerging recently in sociology, which is 'performativity …', a term borrowed from the philosophy of language. I propose a neurolinguistic approach to performativity that is based on … the status function, and give empirical applications from the research on performativity in financial markets. Second, I …