Title Economics and Utopia : why the learning economy is not the end of history / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description	xix, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series	Economics as social theory ; [11]
	Economics as social theory ; 11.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-326) and index.
Contents	Visions and illusions -- Socialism and the Limits to Innovation -- The emergence and meaning of the term 'socialism' -- The very late inception of socialist economic pluralism -- The problem of socialism and diversity -- The socialist calculation debate -- A proposal for 'democratic planning' -- Computers to the rescue? -- Can socialism learn? -- The Absolutism of Market Individualism -- The limits to contracts and markets -- The individual as being the best judge of her needs -- Learning a challenge to market individualism -- Market individualism and the iron cage of liberty -- The alleged ubiquity of the market -- Organisations and the conditions for innovation and learning -- Market individualism and the intolerance of structural diversity -- Evaluating different types of market institution -- The blindness of existing theory -- The Universality of Mainstream Economics -- The universalist claims of mainstream economics -- Univeralism versus realism in Hayek's economics -- The hidden, ideological specifics -- The limits of contractarian analysis -- Actor and structure -- Karl Marx and the Triumph of Capitalism -- The hidden, ahistorical universals -- The problem of necessary impurities -- Actor and structure -- Institutionalism and Varieties of Capitalism -- Veblen's critique of Marx -- Specificity and universality -- Institutions as units of analysis -- Variety and the impurity principle -- Varieties of actually existing capitalism -- The spectres of globalisation and convergence -- Back to the future -- Contract and Capitalism.
Subject	Liberalism.
	Economics.
	Utopian socialism.
	Marxian economics.
	Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
	Liberalism. (OCoLC)fst00997183
	Marxian economics. (OCoLC)fst01010951
	Utopian socialism. (OCoLC)fst01163356
	Liberalisme.
	Utopisch socialisme.
	Kapitalismus (DE-588)4029577-1
	Marxismus (DE-588)4037764-7
	Wirtschaftstheorie (DE-588)4079351-5
ISBN	0415075068
	9780415075060
	041519685X (pbk.)
	9780415196857 (pbk.)

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