Title Beyond the market : the social foundations of economic efficiency / Jens Beckert ; translated by Barbara Harshav.

Publication Info.	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2002]
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.
Contents	Introduction. Part 1. Critique. The limits of the rational-actor model as a microfoundation of economic efficiency -- Part 2. Concepts. Émile Durkheim: the economy as moral order -- Talcott Parsons : the economy as a subsystem of society -- Niklas Luhman : the economy as a autopoietic system -- Anthony Giddens : actor and structure in economic action.
Summary	Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding e.
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Subject	Economics -- Sociological aspects.
	Decision making -- Social aspects.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
	Decision making -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00889067
	Economics -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902213
	Economisch handelen.
	Efficiëntie.
	Theorieën.
Added Title	Grenzen des Marktes. English
Other Form:	Print version: Beckert, Jens, 1967- Grenzen des Marktes. English. Beyond the market. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691049076 9780691049076 (DLC) 2001058064 (OCoLC)48475134
ISBN	9781400825448 (electronic book)
	140082544X (electronic book)
	0691049076 (alkaline paper)
	9780691049076

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