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Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

Autor Richard Wagner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2010
Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed.
The many particular topics the book examines can be traced to two central ideas. Firstly, that economic theory, like physics, requires two distinct theoretical frameworks. One treats qualities that are invariant across time and place; this is the domain of equilibrium theory. The other treats the internal generation of change in societies through entrepreneurial action that continually transforms the ecology of enterprises that constitutes a society. Secondly, economic theory is treated as a genuine social science and not a science of rationality writ large. The book also explores ways in which life in society is understood differently once economics is treated as a social science.
The book will be useful to professional audiences who work with economic theory and who find that much of the hyper-formality that comprises economic theory these days fails to make reasonable contact with reality. It will also be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and researchers in law, public policy, Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and political economy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415779968
ISBN-10: 0415779960
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 14 b/w images, 5 tables and 14 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Social-Economy: Some Preliminaries on Scope and Method, 2. Society, Property, and Human Action, 3. Economizing, Calculation, and Purposive Action, 4. Planning, Production, and Entrepreneurial Action, 5. Markets and Prices as Emergent Patterns of Human Interaction, 6. Competition and Its Social Organization, 7. From Micro to Macro through an Emergent Ecology of Enterprises, 8. Politics, Markets, and Political Economy: Entangled, not Separated

Notă biografică

Richard E. Wagner is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, USA.

Recenzii

"Richard Wagner develops a bold alternative to the predominant research program in contemporary economics. This alternative, focused on understanding emergent-dynamic processes, provides valuable insights into our understanding of economic systems. This important book deserves a wide readership."

Christopher J. Coyne, University of West Virginia

Descriere

In this book, Wagner offers a new logic for economic analysis seeking to transcend the distinction between neoclassical and Austrian economics that has come increasingly into play over the past 30 years.