Title: Mind, society, and human action : time and knowledge in a theory of social economy /
Authors: Wagner, Richard E.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics Sociological aspects; Economics Political aspects.
Abstract: "Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20 th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19 th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed.
Contents: Social economy : some preliminaries on scope and method -- Society, property, and human action -- Economizing, calculation, and purposive action -- Planning, production, and entrepreneurial action -- Markets and prices as emergent patterns of human interaction -- Competition and its social organization -- From micro to macro through an emergent ecology of enterprises -- Politics, markets, and political economy : entangled, not separated.