Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society

Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society
ISBN-10
0202364259
ISBN-13
9780202364254
Series
Beyond the Marketplace
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
365
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Authors
A. F. Robertson, Roger Owen Friedland

Description

Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society. Do individuals behave in markets as neoclassical theory assumes they do? Can other social institutions and processes--e.g., family formation and voting behavior--be analyzed with the same analytic tools we use to study markets? How is economic behavior shaped by institutions beyond the marketplace? Do markets themselves have a social and cultural structure which is not adequately explained by the formal tools of neoclassical analysis? In Beyond the Marketplace, economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists respond to these, and related, questions.

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