Social Contracts and Economic Markets
Judith R. Blau
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Description for Social Contracts and Economic Markets
Hardback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHC; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1120.
The thesis of this book is that people enter into social contracts because they are different from one another and have incentives to cooperate. In economic life, people have identical interests—namely, their own se- interests—so they have an incentive to compete. The social worlds that we create, or map, and those that are already mapped for us are increasingly complex, and thus the tracking of rationality is not so straightforward, although it is everywhere evident. In a sense, this book grew out of two questions: Why hasn't the United States had a second revolution? Or is the revolution yet to ... Read more
The thesis of this book is that people enter into social contracts because they are different from one another and have incentives to cooperate. In economic life, people have identical interests—namely, their own se- interests—so they have an incentive to compete. The social worlds that we create, or map, and those that are already mapped for us are increasingly complex, and thus the tracking of rationality is not so straightforward, although it is everywhere evident. In a sense, this book grew out of two questions: Why hasn't the United States had a second revolution? Or is the revolution yet to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306443916
SKU
V9780306443916
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