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  • How We Sold Our Future

    The Failure to Fight Climate Change

    by Jens Beckert ...
    Translated by Ray Cunningham ...
    For decades, we have known about the dangers of global warming. Despite this, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, in the face of the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so reluctant to take action?In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these ... Read more

    Was $24.00 USD Now $16.00 USD

  • Imagined Futures

    by Jens Beckert ...
    Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Uncertain Futures

    Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy

    Edited by Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk ...
    Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Death, Deeds, and Descendents

    Inheritance in Modern America

    by Remi Clignet, Jens Beckert, Brooke Harrington ...
    Series series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Imagined Futures

    Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

    by Jens Beckert ...
    In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and rational expectations theory. Powerful as these analytical tools are, they underestimate the future’s unknowability by assuming that markets, in ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

    Edited by Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society. In particular, it focuses on the impact of social, political and cultur ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Illegal Markets

    Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy

    Edited by Jens Beckert, Matías Dewey ...
    From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. Despite the importance of illegality in the economy, the field of economic sociology unquestioningly ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Beyond the Market

    The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

    by Jens Beckert ...
    Translated by Barbara Harshav ...
    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 ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

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  • Institutions and Economic Theory

    The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

    by Eirik G. Furubotn, Rudolf Richter ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political science. In addition to updated references, new material includes analysis of parallel developments in the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

    by Daniel Hausman, Michael McPherson, Debra Satz ...
    This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores the idea of rationality and its connections to ethics, arguing that when they defend their formal ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    by Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Economic Thought

    A Brief History

    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    by Heinz Kurz ...
    In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson and Kenneth J. Arrow. With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired, lost, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD