Beyond the market :
Beckert, Jens,
Beyond the market : the social foundations of economic efficiency / - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2002. - 365 p. ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-346) and index.
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. This work finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty.
0691049076 (alk. paper) 9780691049076
Decision making--Social aspects
Economics--Sociological aspects
Political science
Social sciences
Economics
Decision making
HM548 / .B43613 2002
306.3'4
Beyond the market : the social foundations of economic efficiency / - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2002. - 365 p. ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-346) and index.
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. This work finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty.
0691049076 (alk. paper) 9780691049076
Decision making--Social aspects
Economics--Sociological aspects
Political science
Social sciences
Economics
Decision making
HM548 / .B43613 2002
306.3'4