Amitai Etzioni

Essays in Socio-Economics

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays deal with various aspects of a new, rising field, socio economics. The field is seeking to combine the variables studied by neoclassical economists with those typically studied by other social sciences. The combination is expected to provide a better understanding of economic behavior and the economy as well as society; make more reliable predictions; and be more in line with normative values we seek to uphold. The new field, though, may be less elegant mathematically and possibly less parsimonious than neoclassical economics. Some of my ideas on this subject are included in a previously published book, The Moral Dimension: TowardA New Economics (New York: The Free Press, 1988). They also led to a formation of an international society of several thousand scholars who are interested in the field, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. The essays at hand are in effect grouped. The first two, previously published respectively in the Journal of Economic Psychology and Business Ethics Quarterly, reflect my most recent thinking. They both have a utopian streak that may stand out especially in these days when unfeathered capitalism is the rage. The first points to people, who far from making consuming ever more their life's project, seek a less affiuent way oflife. It examines the psychological foundations and the social consequences of such an approach.

Produktdetails

• Ethical Economy
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-08415-7
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9783642084157
• ISBN-10: 364208415X
• Artikelnr.: 32078130

Autorenporträt

Dr. Amitai Etzioni ist Wirtschaftssoziologe und Professor der George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Der Gründer des Communitarian Network (1992) war Berater des Weißen Hauses unter den US-Präsidenten Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush und Bill Clinton. Etzioni ist Autor von mehr als 20 Büchern, seine Aufätze und Abhandlungen erscheinen in führenden Nachrichtenblättern wie The New York Times, The Washington Post und The Wall Street Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences.- 2: A Communitarian Note on Stakeholder Theory.- 3: Opening the Preferences: A Socio-Economic Research Agenda.- 4: The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception.- 5: Normative-Affective Factors: Toward a New Decision-Making Model.- 6: Mixed-Scanning Revisted.- 7: Making Policy for Complex Systems: A Medical Model for Economics.- 8: The Mapping of Man.- 9: Whose Morality? Which Community? What Interests? Socio-Economic and Communitarian Perspectives.