The Future of Performativity.

International audienceTwo recent publications have deepened the ongoing debate on the uses and abuses of performativity in the social sciences and specifically the way it has been erected as a comprehensive epistemic scheme for economics. The Provoked Economy (2014), by Fabian Muniesa triggered lots of criticisms and debates that are well echoed in the collective work edited by Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova, Enacting Dismal Science (2016a).1 The goal of this review is to present and discuss both and, as a by-product, to advocate for a pragmatic and institutionally grounded use of the concept of performativity in economics