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Nature of Social Reality
Issues in Social Ontology
Av Tony Lawson
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters. Providing an …
Nature of Social Reality
Issues in Social Ontology
Av Tony Lawson
Häftad, 2019
648 kr
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The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters. Providing an …
Cambridge Social Ontology
An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds. One of the longest running projects in social ontology has …
Cambridge Social Ontology
An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds. One of the longest running projects in social ontology has …
Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy
Philosophy and Applications
Häftad, 2023
604 kr
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Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century. It demonstrates how changes in understandings of social evolution corresponded to …
Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy
Philosophy and Applications
Inbunden, 2023
2133 kr
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Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century. It demonstrates how changes in understandings of social evolution corresponded to …
Rules and Choice in Economics
Essays in Constitutional Political Economy
Inbunden, 1994
3065 kr
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Using an analysis which draws on economics, law, moral philosophy, sociology and political science, Vanberg demonstrates how the rules and institutions which are the basis of cooperation in society can be systematically explained.
Economics and Utopia
Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History
Inbunden, 1998
3156 kr
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of …
Who Pays for the Kids?
Gender and the Structures of Constraint
Av Nancy Folbre
Inbunden, 1994
2744 kr
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Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on …
Who Pays for the Kids?
Gender and the Structures of Constraint
Av Nancy Folbre
Häftad, 1994
924 kr
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Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on …
Rationality, Institutions and Economic Methodology
Av Bo Gustafsson, Christian Knudsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
3156 kr
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Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broader notions of rationality offered by institutional economics are discussed.
Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
Av Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman
Inbunden, 1995
3065 kr
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Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA
Rationality, Institutions and Economic Methodology
Av Bo Gustafsson, Christian Knudsen m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
1042 kr
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Looks at ways to increase the scope and power of institutional economics. Different approaches to economic methodology are considered and the broader notions of rationality offered by institutional economics are discussed.
Economics and Language
Av Roger E. Backhouse, Tony Dudley-Evans m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
1042 kr
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The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way
Rules and Choice in Economics
Essays in Constitutional Political Economy
Häftad, 1994
924 kr
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Using an analysis which draws on economics, law, moral philosophy, sociology and political science, Vanberg demonstrates how the rules and institutions which are the basis of cooperation in society can be systematically explained.
New Directions in Economic Methodology
Inbunden, 1994
3065 kr
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In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. Its contributors are …
New Directions in Economic Methodology
Häftad, 1994
1012 kr
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In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. Its contributors are …
Market
Ethics, Knowledge and Politics
Av John O'Neill
Inbunden, 1998
3156 kr
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Following the failure of 'really existing socialism' in Eastern Europe and Asia, the market is now generally perceived, by Left and Right, to be supreme in any rational economic system. The current debate now focuses on the proper boundaries of markets rather than the system itself. This book …
Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge
Av Jack Amariglio, Stephen E Cullenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
3065 kr
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Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge.This ground-breaking volume brings together …
Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge
Av Jack Amariglio, Stephen E Cullenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
1012 kr
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Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge.This ground-breaking volume brings together …
Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
Av Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman
Häftad, 1995
1347 kr
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Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USA
Economic Evolution
An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics
Inbunden, 1995
3156 kr
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The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic change? Economic Evolution explores three of the main approaches within the new institutional economics:* the new theory of the firm,* Nelson and …
Economic Evolution
An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics
Häftad, 1995
1042 kr
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The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic change? Economic Evolution explores three of the main approaches within the new institutional economics:* the new theory of the firm,* Nelson and …
Feminism, Objectivity and Economics
Av Julie Nelson
Inbunden, 1995
2744 kr
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This classic study extends feminist analysis to economics, but rejects setting up an economics solely for women. It is the first full length, single authored book to focus on gender bias in contemporary economics.
Feminism, Objectivity and Economics
Av Julie Nelson
Häftad, 1995
1012 kr
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This classic study extends feminist analysis to economics, but rejects setting up an economics solely for women. It is the first full length, single authored book to focus on gender bias in contemporary economics.
New Economic Criticism
Studies at the interface of literature and economics
Av Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen
Inbunden, 1999
3156 kr
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This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. …
New Economic Criticism
Studies at the interface of literature and economics
Av Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen
Häftad, 1999
952 kr
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This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. …
What do Economists Know?
New Economics of Knowledge
Inbunden, 1999
3686 kr
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A provocatively rethink of the questions of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Academic economists in the twentieth century have presumed to monopolise economic knowledge, seeing themselves as the only legitimate producers and consumers of this highly specialized commodity. This has …
Economics and Reality
Av Tony Lawson
Inbunden, 1997
3156 kr
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'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools …
Economics and Reality
Av Tony Lawson
Häftad, 1997
1132 kr
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'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools …
