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Beyond the Market : The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beckert, Jens, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Part 1. Critique. The limits of the rational-actor model as a microfoundation of economic efficiency
  • Part 2. Concepts. Émile Durkheim: the economy as moral order
  • Talcott Parsons : the economy as a subsystem of society
  • Niklas Luhman : the economy as a autopoietic system
  • Anthony Giddens : actor and structure in economic action.