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Economics and Social Theory

ISBN: 9780415771757 | 0415771757
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 5/12/2014

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SummaryTable of Contents
Innovative and cutting-edge, this book proposes an alternative philosophical framework for economics which will reconfigure economics and social theory as historical disciplines that analyze successive standardizations of social practices.
Part 1: The Social Practices Framework 1. The Rise and Fall of Formalism in Postwar Economics, Sociology and Philosophy 2. Social Practices, Governmentality and Economic History Part 2: Social Theory 3. Competing Theories of Agency in Economics and Social Theory 4. Why are Capital Accumulation Metaphors so Popular? 5: Consumption, Culture and Contemporary Identity Part 3: The Economy as Social Construct 6. National Styles of Capitalism 7. Production Chains, Globalization and the State 8. Long Waves, Golden Ages, New Economies and Asset Bubbles


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