Marx, Foucault und das Projekt einer Wissenssoziologie der Wirtschaftswissenschaften

The paper argues for carrying forward the project of investigation and critique of economics in the tradition of the Critique of Political Economy. It first examines Marxian and Foucauldian perspectives on economics before turning to more recent attempts in the field of Social Studies of Science (namely Mirowksi and Yonay). Various modes of critique are discussed and compared. Two of the main questions regard the problem whether the discussion of economic theories should rely on a strong concept of truth and how to discuss correlations between structural and semantic dimensions.