TY  - GEN
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
A1  - Lebaron, Frederic
T1  - There is no such thing as "the Economy"
BT  - Economic phenomena analysed from a field-theoretical perspective
BT  - Zur Analyse ökonomischer Phänomene aus feldtheoretischer Perspektive
T2  - Historical Social Research
N2  - This introductory essay to the HSR Special Issue “Economists, Politics, and Society” argues for a strong field-theoretical programme inspired by Pierre Bourdieu to research economic life as an integral part of different social forms. Its main aim is threefold. First, we spell out the very distinct Durkheimian legacy in Bourdieu’s thinking and the way he applies it in researching economic phenomena. Without this background, much of what is actually part of how Bourdieu analysed economic aspects of social life would be overlooked or reduced to mere economic sociology. Second, we sketch the main theoretical concepts and heuristics used to analyse economic life from a field perspective. Third, we focus on practical methodological issues of field-analytical research into economic phenomena. We conclude with a short summary of the basic characteristics of this approach and discuss the main insights provided by the contributions to this special issue.
T2  - 'Die Ökonomie‘ gibt es nicht!
KW  - Economic sociology
KW  - field
KW  - Bourdieu
KW  - methodology
KW  - discourse
KW  - domination
KW  - state
KW  - economy
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.7-38
SN  - 0172-6404
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
SP  - 7
EP  - 38
PB  - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
CY  - Cologne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Struggling over crisis
T1  - Umkämpfte Krise
BT  - Discoursive Positionings and Academic Positions in the Field of German-Speaking Economists
BT  - Diskursive Positionierungen und akademische Positionen im Feld deutschsprachiger Volkswirt*innen
JF  - Historical Social Research
N2  - If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.” Following the premise of this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, varying perceptions of the European crisis by academic economists and their structural homology to economists’ positions in the field of economics are examined. The dataset analysed using specific multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) comprises information on the careers of 480 German-speaking economists and on statements they made concerning crisis-related issues. It can be shown that the main structural differences in the composition and amount of scientific and academic capital held by economists as well as their age and degree of transnationalisation are linked to how they see the crisis: as a national sovereign debt crisis, as a European banking crisis, or as a crisis of European integration and institutions.
KW  - Economics
KW  - multiple correspondence analysis
KW  - Bourdieu
KW  - field
KW  - discourse
KW  - mixed methods
KW  - European Union
KW  - crisis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.147-188
SN  - 0172-6404
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
SP  - 147
EP  - 188
PB  - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
CY  - Cologne
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Lawyers, economists and citizens: the impact of neo-liberal European governance on citizenship
T2  - The Transformation of Citizenship : Political Economy
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 978-1-138-67290-1 (print)
SN  - 978-1-315-56228-5 (online)
IS  - 1
SP  - 31
EP  - 45
PB  - Routledge Taylor
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Europeanisation, stateness, and professions
BT  - what role do economic expertise and economic experts play in European political integration?
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The article explores Europeanisation as an effect of European political integration, a process driven by struggles over the legitimate political and social order that is to prevail in Europe. Firstly, an analytic framework is constructed, drawing on insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s work on similar struggles over nation-stateness. Secondly, the mechanisms identified are used to assess the role played by economic experts and expertise in the process of European political integration. It is argued that concepts arising from economic disciplines, agents educated in economics, and practising economic professionals influence European political integration and have benefited from Europeanisation initiated by this process. Special emphasis is placed on strategies of integrating Europe by law or by market, on governing Europe using economic expertise, on the role played by economic academia in researching and objectifying Europe, and on staffing European institutions with economists.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 99 
KW  - field theory
KW  - economics
KW  - professions
KW  - European Union
KW  - neo-liberal governance
KW  - political integration
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412590
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 99
ER  -