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Essays in Socio-Economics

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Authors:
  1. Amitai Etzioni

    1. Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies Suite 714J, The George Washington University, USA

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  • The author's communitarianism is undoutedly one of the most influential and pathbreaking approaches in present social theory
  • Relations of economics and other social sciences, especially sociology
  • Involvement of moral and social values

Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 1-26

  3. A Communitarian Note on Stakeholder Theory

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 27-42

  4. Opening the Preferences: A Socio-Economic Research Agenda

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 43-61

  5. The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 63-89

  6. Normative-Affective Factors: Toward a New Decision-Making Model

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 91-119

  7. Mixed-Scanning Revisited

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 121-136

  8. Making Policy for Complex Systems: A Medical Model for Economics

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 137-152

  9. The Mapping of Man

    • Amitai Etzioni
    Pages 153-156

  10. Whose Morality? Which Community? What Interests? Socio-Economic and Communitarian Perspectives

    • Richard M. Coughlin
    Pages 157-182
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies Suite 714J, The George Washington University, USA

    Amitai Etzioni

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays in Socio-Economics

  • Authors: Amitai Etzioni

  • Series Title: Ethical Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03900-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64466-8Published: 21 January 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08415-7Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-03900-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2707

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 182

  • Topics: Economics, general, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Political Science

  • Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking

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