Beyond the Market : : The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency / / Jens Beckert.
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in expla...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: CRITIQUE
- ONE. The Limits of the Rational-Actor Model as a Microfoundation of Economic Efficiency
- PART TWO: CONCEPTS
- TWO. Émile Durkheim: The Economy as Moral Order
- THREE. Talcott Parsons: The Economy as a Subsystem of Society
- FOUR. Niklas Luhmann: The Economy as a Autopoietic System
- FIVE. Anthony Giddens: Actor and Structure in Economic Action
- PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS
- SIX. Perspectives for Economic Sociology
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX