The institutional economy : demand and supply / David Reisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reisman, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institutional economics.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

2 Economy as society 3

2.1 The maximising economics 4

2.2 Social economics 7

2.3 The individual 18

3 Present as past 23

3.1 The conservative market 25

3.2 The evolution of the optimal 33

3.3 Constitutions and choices 38

4 Society as past 44

4.1 Bounded rationality 45

4.2 Cognitive bias 49

4.3 Performance and productivity 59

5 People and things 65

5.1 Signals and symbols 66

5.2 Habits and customs 75

5.3 The freedom of choice 87

6 Benevolence 95

6.1 Altruism and interest 96

6.2 The gift relationship 101

6.3 Gifts and groups 108

7 Malevolence 119

7.1 The destruction motive 120

7.2 Market and malevolence 125

7.3 The political economy of other people 131

8 Needs and wants 140

8.1 Happiness and wealth 142

8.2 The hierarchy of needs 151

8.3 Anthropocentric economics 162

9 The demand to supply 171

9.1 Work and need 172

9.2 Intrinsic motivation 179

9.3 The supply motive 185

10 Organisational order 195

10.1 X-efficiency 196

10.2 Organisational memory 203

10.3 The network as social capital 210

11 Organisational cost 224

11.1 Entrepreneurs and bureaucrats 225

11.2 Contract and command 228

11.3 Markets and hierarchies 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index.

ISBN:

1840646748

OCLC:

48053860