Beyond the Marketplace Rethinking Economy and Society

Name: Beyond the Marketplace Rethinking Economy and Society
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ISBN: 9780202303703

ISBN-10: 0202303705

ISBN-13: 9780202303703

Edition: 1990

Authors: Roger Friedland, A. F. Robertson, A. Robertson

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"Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society. Do individuals behave in markets as neoclassical theory assumes they do? Can other social institutions and processes--e.g., family formation and voting behavior--be analyzed with the same analytic tools we use to study markets? How is economic behavior shaped by institutions beyond the marketplace? Do markets themselves have a social and cultural structure which is not adequately explained by the formal tools of neoclassical analysis? In Beyond the Marketplace, economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists respond to these, and related, questions."--BOOK…

Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Publication date: 12/31/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 365
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English




Introduction



Beyond the Marketplace




Individuals and Markets



Rethinking Rational Choice




The Old and the New Economic Sociology: A History and an Agenda




Cultural Aspects of Economic Action and Organization




The Idea of Economy: Six Modern Dissenters




Society as Market



Markets, Marriages, and Other Mates: The Problem of Power




Class Conflict as a Dynamic Game




Markets in Society



A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change




Explaining the Politics of the Welfare State or Marching Back toward Pluralism?




States, Labor Markets, and Life Cycles




Markets as Society



The Transformation of Organizational Forms: How Useful Is Organization Theory in Accounting for Social Change?




Once More into the Breach between Economic and Cultural Analysis



About the Authors


Index