Ebook: Essays in Socio-Economics
Author: Prof. Dr. Amitai Etzioni (auth.)
- Tags: Economics general, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Political Science general
- Series: Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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 volume reflects the most recent thinking of the author on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It examines the key to evolving a socio-economics and it deals with the socio-economics of decision making. The volume closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.
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 volume reflects the most recent thinking of the author on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It examines the key to evolving a socio-economics and it deals with the socio-economics of decision making. The volume closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences....Pages 1-26
A Communitarian Note on Stakeholder Theory....Pages 27-42
Opening the Preferences: A Socio-Economic Research Agenda....Pages 43-61
The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception....Pages 63-89
Normative-Affective Factors: Toward a New Decision-Making Model....Pages 91-119
Mixed-Scanning Revisited....Pages 121-136
Making Policy for Complex Systems: A Medical Model for Economics....Pages 137-152
The Mapping of Man....Pages 153-156
Whose Morality? Which Community? What Interests? Socio-Economic and Communitarian Perspectives....Pages 157-182
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 volume reflects the most recent thinking of the author on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It examines the key to evolving a socio-economics and it deals with the socio-economics of decision making. The volume closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences....Pages 1-26
A Communitarian Note on Stakeholder Theory....Pages 27-42
Opening the Preferences: A Socio-Economic Research Agenda....Pages 43-61
The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception....Pages 63-89
Normative-Affective Factors: Toward a New Decision-Making Model....Pages 91-119
Mixed-Scanning Revisited....Pages 121-136
Making Policy for Complex Systems: A Medical Model for Economics....Pages 137-152
The Mapping of Man....Pages 153-156
Whose Morality? Which Community? What Interests? Socio-Economic and Communitarian Perspectives....Pages 157-182
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