Rethinking Economics as Social Theory

Richard E. Wagner

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Abstract: Taking an innovative look at the origins of economics, this forward-thinking book relocates economics from a materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the Scottish Enlightenment, Richard E. Wagner explores economics in an ever-changing society, looking at the key civilizing processes and the important social questions.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 9781802204759
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Society as analytical object: some methodological challenges , pp 1-15

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Ch 2 Systems theory and parts-to-whole relationships , pp 16-36

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Ch 3 Cooperation, conflict, and the social organization of human activity , pp 37-58

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Ch 4 Rationality and the Janus-faced character of human reason , pp 59-73

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Ch 5 Markets, law, and moral imaginations: order theory redux , pp 74-89

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Ch 6 Main Street, Wall Street, and City Hall: exploring their entanglement , pp 90-106

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Ch 7 Civilizing processes and the social question reprised , pp 107-124

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Ch 8 Thymology, spiritedness, and the social organization of human activity , pp 125-141

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Ch 9 Rationality within systems: how time integrates subjective and objective probability , pp 142-156

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Ch 10 A portmanteau of themes in closing , pp 157-178

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