ISBN:
9780415810098
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (375 p)
Series Statement:
Economics as Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Commerce and Community : Ecologies of Social Cooperation
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained renewed visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists. The monistic, mechanical ""economic systems"" that characterized the capitalism vs. socialism debates of the mid-twentieth century have given way to pluralistic ecologies of economic provisioning in which complexly constituted agents cooperate via heterogeneous forms of production and exchange. Through the lenses of multiple disciplines, this book examines how this pluralistic turn in economic thinking bears upon the venerable soc
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Social cooperation; 1 The evolution of human cooperation; 2 The theory of social cooperation historically and robustly contemplated; 3 Commerce and beneficence: Adam Smith's unfinished project; 4 Comment: Entering the "great school of self-command": the moralizing influence of markets, language, and imagination; PART II Identity and association; 5 Commerce, reciprocity, and civil virtues: the contribution of the Civil Economy
Description / Table of Contents:
6 What does true individualism really involve? Overcoming market-philanthropy dualism in Hayekian social theory7 Methodological individualism and invisible hands: Richard Cornuelle's call to understand associations; 8 Comment: Don't forget the barter in "truck, barter and exchange"!; PART III Human(e) economics; 9 Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: the stories we tell; 10 Community, the market, and the state: insights from German neoliberalism; 11 Bourgeois love; 12 Comment: Behind the veil of interest; PART IV Entangled spheres; 13 How is community made?
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Commerce, community, and digital gifts15 Classical liberalism and the firm: a troubled relationship; 16 Comment: Exploring the liminal spaces between commerce and community; PART V Not by commerce alone; 17 Reciprocity, calculation, and non-monetary exchange; 18 Kidneys, commerce, and communities; 19 Banks and trust in Adam Smith; 20 Comment: Bankers, vampires, and organ sellers: who can you trust?; Envoi The Apologia of Mercurius; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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