Pietro Frigato, Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga

The Dark Places of Business Enterprise

Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers Veblen's preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining contributions made by Kapp and Mirowski, it proposes the systematization of an institutional theory of social costs of business enterprise useful for the analysis of contemporary crises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781138632257
• ISBN-10: 1138632252
• Artikelnr.: 56533892

Autorenporträt

Pietro Frigato received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pisa, Italy. He has published multiple papers on the subject of social costs in international peer-reviewed journals and edited two books on the topic for Routledge. Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga is Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, and researcher in the International Business and Markets Group at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has published extensively in the areas of decision theory and operations research.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Critical institutionalism, market model
failure and the business control of society through cybernetic
manipulation. 1. Veblen's dark places of business enterprise and the theory
of social costs. 2. Karl William Kapp's critical theory of social costs:
Asset-specific cost-shifting, retardation of efficiency and the paradox of
social control. 3. Neoclassical economics beyond externalities?: Akerlof
and Shiller's Phishing for Phools and the theory of social costs. 4.
Digging into the dark places of business enterprise: Revisiting the theory
of social costs in the light of Mirowski's institutional economics of
knowledge. 5. The darkest place of business enterprise: Business
surveillance, the financial crisis and the swansong of the market in the
information age. Index