Rationality and Irrationality in Economics

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Godelier is a world-renowned anthropologist. Among the many honours he has received are the CNRS Gold Medal and the Alexander von Humbolt prize. His major works include The Making of Great Men , Metamorphoses of Kinship , The Enigma of the Gift , In and Out of the West , and more recently Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought . Klappentext An analysis of social and economic systems and why they appear and disappear throughout history. "Engaging and intriguing ... Anthropology, it would seem, may yet return from the graveyard of structuralism to stir up some debate in the social sciences."--"New Statesman" Zusammenfassung An analysis of social and economic systems and why they appear and disappear throughout history.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Godelier, Godelier Maurice
• Assisted by: Brian Pearce (Translation), Pearce Brian (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2013
• EAN: 9781781680254
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-025-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 07
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; PHILOSOPHY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Popular philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy