I: Economists and the Social Construction of Distinctions; 1: On the Social
Construction of Distinctions: Risk, Rape, Public Goods, and Altruism; 2:
Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be
Abandoned; 3: At Once Ubiquitous and Elusive, the Concept of Externalities
is Either Vacuous or Misapplied; 4: Accounting for the Environment 1; 5:
The Social Construction of Cooperation: Egalitarian, Hierarchical, and
Individualistic Faces of Altruism 1; II: Philosophers, Political Theory,
and Democracy; 6: If Institutions Have Consequences, Why Don't We Hear
about Them from Moral Philosophers? 1; 7: Thomas Hobbes and His Critics:
Interpretive Implications of Cultural Theory; 8: The "Multicultural" Mill
1; 9: Democracy as a Coalition of Cultures; 10: Cultural Pluralism Can Both
Strengthen and Weaken Democracy; III: Social Scientists, Self-interest, and
Rational Choice; 11: Indispensable Framework or Just Another Ideology?
Prisoner's Dilemma as an Antihierarchical Game 1; 12: Why Self-interest
Means Less Outside of a Social Context: Cultural Contributions to a Theory
of Rational Choices; 13: Can Norms Rescue Self-Interest or Macro
Explanation be Joined to Micro Explanation?; 14: Culture, Rationality, and
Political Violence; 15: Cultural Change, Party Ideology and Electoral
Outcomes
