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32 produkter
How We Sold Our Future
The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Av Jens Beckert
Häftad, 2026
158 kr
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For decades, we have known about the dangers of global warming. Despite this, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, in the face of the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so …
Imagined Futures
Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
Av Jens Beckert
Inbunden, 2016
453 kr
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In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and rational expectations theory. Powerful as …
How We Sold Our Future
The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Av Jens Beckert
Inbunden, 2024
227 kr
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For decades, we have known about the dangers of global warming. Despite this, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, in the face of the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so …
Worth of Goods
Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
Av Patrik Aspers, Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2011
668 kr
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How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes …
Constructing Quality
The Classification of Goods in Markets
Av Christine Musselin, Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2013
1613 kr
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How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product in relation to other products. Only by recognizing …
Architecture of Illegal Markets
Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy
E-bok, 2017
1265 kr
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From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. …
Architecture of Illegal Markets
Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy
E-bok, 2017
1265 kr
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From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. …
Uncertain Futures
Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
Av Richard Bronk, Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2018
471 kr
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Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be …
Uncertain Futures
Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
Av Richard Bronk, Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2018
481 kr
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Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be …
The Architecture of Illegal Markets
Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy
Inbunden, 2017
1404 kr
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From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. …
Uncertain Futures
Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
Av Jens Beckert, Jens Beckert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1808 kr
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Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be …
Uncertain Futures
Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
Av Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk
Häftad, 2019
743 kr
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Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be …
The Worth of Goods
Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
Av Jens Beckert, Patrik Aspers
Inbunden, 2011
2993 kr
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How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes …
The Worth of Goods
Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
Av Jens Beckert, Patrik Aspers
Häftad, 2011
1041 kr
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How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes …
Constructing Quality
The Classification of Goods in Markets
Av Musselin Beckert, Jens Beckert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2581 kr
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How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product in relation to other products. Only by recognizing …
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Av Remi Clignet, Jens Beckert m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
689 kr
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Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal …
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
Av Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski
Inbunden, 2005
7583 kr
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The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society. In particular, it …
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
Av Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski
Häftad, 2011
1133 kr
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The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society. In particular, it …
Inherited Wealth
Av Jens Beckert
Häftad, 2007
1133 kr
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How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality …
Inherited Wealth
Av Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2018
853 kr
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How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality …
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
Av Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski
E-bok, 2005
1271 kr
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The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society. In particular, it …
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
Av Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski
E-bok, 2005
1299 kr
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The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society. In particular, it …
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Av Brooke Harrington, Jens Beckert m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
813 kr
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Clignet''s analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal …
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Av Brooke Harrington, Jens Beckert m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
813 kr
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Clignet''s analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal …
Beyond the Market
The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency
Av Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2009
1355 kr
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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 …
How We Sold Our Future
The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Av Jens Beckert
E-bok, 2024
253 kr
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For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so …
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Av Jens Beckert, Christoph Deutschmann
Häftad, 2009
516 kr
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Die Wirtschaft ist ein zentraler Bereich sozialen Handelns. In den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten hat die Wirtschaftssoziologie, ausgehend von den USA, einen Aufschwung erlebt und eine Fülle neuer Forschungsansätze entwickelt. Das wachsende Interesse an einer genuin soziologischen Betrachtung der …
