Intersubjectivity in economics : agents and structures / edited by Edward Fullbrook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fullbrook, Edward.

Series:

Economics as social theory.

Economics as social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Psychological aspects.

Economics.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

xiv, 321 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A team of expert international contributors explore the structures and effects of interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations ix

List of contributors x

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction: Why intersubjectivity? 1

EDWARD FULLBROOK

PART I

Intersubjective agents

1 Collective intentionality and individual behavior 11

JOHN B. DAVIS

2 Reciprocal fairness, cooperation and limits to competition 28

ERNST FEHR AND ARMIN FALK

3 All consumption is conspicuous 43

ANNE MAYHEW

4 Flaws in the foundation: Consumer behavior and

general equilibrium theory 56

FRANK ACKERMAN

5 On the need for a more complete ontology of the consumer 71

RALPH W. PFOUTS

6 Conspicuous consumption in economic theory and thought 85

ROGER MASON

7 The economics of criminal participation: Radical

subjectivist and intersubjectivist critiques 105

PETER WYNARCZYK

8 'Everybody is talking about it': Intersubjectivity and the television industry 123

SHAUN P. HARGREAVES HEAP

PART II

Intersubjective structures

9 Market, imitation and tradition: Hayek vs Keynes 139

JEAN-PIERRE DUPUY

10 Reconstitutive downward causation: Social structure

and the development of individual agency 159

GEOFFREY M. HODGSON

11 Conventions of co-ordination and the framing of

uncertainty 181

LAURENT THEVENOT

12 Intersubjectivity in the socio-economic world:

A critical realist perspective 198

PAUL LEWIS AND JOCHEN RUNDE

13 Social networks and information 216

PAUL ORMEROD

14 Dispositions, social structures and economic practices:

Towards a new economic sociology 231

FREDERIC LEBARON

15 Adam Smith's sympathy: Towards a normative economics 241

S. ABU TURAB RIZVI

16 The theory of conventions and a new theory of the firm 254'

THIERRY LEVY

17 An intersubjective theory of value 273

Name Index 300

Subject Index 305.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781134499762

1134499760

9781280105609

1280105607

9781134499779

1134499779

9780415266970

0415266971

9780203116661

0203116666

OCLC:

1000435158