Knowledge from the margins, marginal knowledge? Sources, scope, and legitimacy of critical economic knowledge

Throughout the twentieth century, American universities and administrations gradually monopolised the production of legitimate economic knowledge. They were soon followed by their Western European counterparts and later by the rest of the world. These institutions and their intellectuals have appropriated the positions from which such knowledge is produced, the means of imposing its codes and content of economic discourse. In the process, they have introduced a hierarchy within the academic world and between the academic and non-academic world. They hold the authority to frame the controversies over the analysis of economic dynamics and the ways in which they can be steered via public policy. As economic competence has become essential to government, scholarly literature has focused primarily on how these professional economists have acquired a decisive hold on this political process.

This conference will analyse the processes of marginalisation that are the counterpart of this monopolisation. It aims to shift our gaze from the realm of what is accepted and legitimate in terms of economic knowledge to the forms of knowledge that have been sidelined and devalued.

This conference is available on zoom (registration required) : https://sciencespo-grenoble-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/_xE2i5noQfewwm4…

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