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Michelle Chihara, ‘The Rise of Behavioral Economic Masculinity’

by Martijn Konings on August 27, 2019

Michelle Chihara, ‘The Rise of Behavioral Economic Masculinity’

Martijn Konings | August 27, 2019

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Behavioral economics, as an academic discipline, reoriented the foundations of neoclassical economics’ theory of the subject. This project gives a cultural history of the behavioral economic narrative mode as it entered popular American discourse and participated in the construction of common sense. In this mode, friendly masculine explainers tell entertaining stories about the economy, or, the behavior of characters in stories is explained as fundamentally motivated by the same kind of decision-making that governs markets. In this mode, the hegemonic financial explainer Michael Lewis wrote bestselling books about the world of high finance. These became the dominant popular narratives about the arrival of big data (Moneyball), the financial crisis (The Big Short), and the rise of behavioral economics (The Undoing Project). In the thick context of this cultural production, I analyze the epistemological consequences and narrow horizons of behavioral economic storytelling.

Presented by Michelle Chihara, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College.

Free to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.

Date And Time

Wed 28 August 2019

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Location

R.D. Watt Seminar Room 203

The University of Sydney

Registration

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-rise-of-behavioral-economic-masculinity-tickets-67951910995

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Author: Martijn Konings

Martijn Konings works in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Development of American Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed (Stanford University Press, 2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, Polity, 2017) and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Stanford University Press, 2018). With Melinda Cooper, he edits the new Stanford University Press series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times.

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    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
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    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
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    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
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