The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy

About

Martin Giraudeau is a Lecturer in Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science UK. His research focuses on the historical role of accounting and management devices starting with business plans in the making of modern economies.Liz McFall is Head of Sociology at the Open University UK. Her work explores how markets are made especially for dull products like insurance that people don't really want to buy. She is working on Devising Consumption a book that argues that it takes all sorts of technical material artistic and metaphysical know-how to make people want to spend. She is author of Advertising: a cultural economy co-editor of Conduct: sociology and social worlds and co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy.Franck Cochoy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse France. He has published extensively on the market mediations between producers and consumers from marketing to packaging via advertising and other curiosity devices.