Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency (repost)
Barbara Harshav, Jens Beckert, "Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency"
ISBN: 0691049076 | 2002 | EPUB | 376 pages | 3 MB
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behaviour to the point of distortion.
Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behaviour as cooperation, innovation and action under conditions of uncertainty - phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action.