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  Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

Beckert, J. (2002). Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Beckert, Jens1, Autor           
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1International University Bremen, Germany, ou_persistent22              

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Schlagwörter: Economics, Sociological Aspects, Decision Making, Social Aspects
 Zusammenfassung: Beyond the Market 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. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty — phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action.


Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures.


Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency — as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology — this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2002
 Publikationsstatus: Erschienen
 Seiten: 365
 Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe: Princeton : Princeton University Press
 Inhaltsverzeichnis: PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: CRITIQUE
ONE
The Limits of the Rational-Actor Model as a Microfoundation of Economic Efficiency
Cooperation
Uncertainty
Innovation

PART TWO: CONCEPTS
TWO
Emile Durkheim: The Economy as Moral Order
Sociology as the Science of Morality
Durkheim’s Critique of Economics
Economic Institutions as Moral Facts
Anomie and Forced Division of Labor
Stabilizing Economic Relations with Professional Groups
Cooperation and Morality
Appendix: Systematizing the View of the Economy in Sociological Theory: Durkheim through Weber to Parsons

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Talcott Parsons: The Economy as a Subsystem of Society
Economic and Sociological Theory in Parsons’s Early Work
The Economy as the Adaptive Subsystem of Society
The Boundary Processes of the Economy
The Institutional Establishment of Economic Rationality
Cooperation and Interpenetration

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Niklas Luhmann: The Economy as a Autopoietic System
The Self-Referentiality of the Economy
The Reentry of the Excluded Third Party
System and Action

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Anthony Giddens: Actor and Structure in Economic Action
Interpretation and Structuration of Economic Action
Cooperation and Reflextivity
Innovation and Creativity

PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS
SIX
Perspectives for Economic Sociology

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 Identifikatoren: ISBN: 0-691-04907-6
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2544-8
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