Economics and Social Theory

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Adam Lutzker, Adam (University of Michigan Flint Lutzker, Lutzker Adam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.01.2026
• EAN: 9780415771757
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77175-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy