Economics and the Social Sciences

Boundaries, Interaction and Integration

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This book is based on the premise that mainstream economics has become excessively specialized and formalized, entering a state of de facto withdrawal from the study of the economy in favour of exercises in applied mathematics. The editors believe that there is much scope for synergies by engaging in an encounter with economics and the other social sciences. The chapters in this book offer important new contributions to such a development. A select group of highly regarded contributors illustrate the potentially enlightening relationship between economics and a wide range of social science disciplines. In addition, some important concepts for economic analysis - for example the notion of routines, of social capital and of flexibility - are explored from the vantage point of several social sciences.Postgraduate students in most social science disciplines and in economic sociology will find much to interest them in this book, as will students of psychology and economics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-02-23
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781840647907

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Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Edited by the late Stavros Ioannides, formerly Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Athens, Greece and Klaus Nielsen, Professor of Institutional Economics, Birkbeck University of London, UK

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1. Economics and the Social Sciences: Synergies and Trade-offsStavros Ioannides and Klaus NielsenPART I: ECONOMICS AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES: RELATIONSHIPS AND BOUNDARIES 2. What Can be Learnt from ‘Serious’ Biology and Psychology?Jack Vromen3. Economics and Sociology in the Transition from Industrial to Post-Industrial Capitalism George Liagouras 4. The ‘Institutional Turn’ in the Social Sciences: A Review of Approaches and a Future Research AgendaKlaus Nielsen5. The Problem of Historical SpecificityGeoffrey M. HodgsonPART II: NEW LIGHT ON RATIONALITY, SOCIAL RELATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 6. The Irrationality of Utility Maximization or the Death of a Salesman Irene van Staveren7. Social Capital or Sociality? Methodological Contrasts between Economics and Other Social SciencesDesmond McNeill 8. Where Disciplinary Boundaries Blur: The Environmental Dimension of Institutional EconomicsEyüp ÖzverenPART III: FLEXIBILITY, ROUTINES AND PRODUCTION IN ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES9. Economic Flexibility: A Structural AnalysisWilliam A. Jackson10. Routines: A Brief History of the ConceptMarkus C. Becker 11. Complementarity, Cognition and Capabilities: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of ProductionGuido BuenstorfIndex