A starter on support-bargaining and money-bargaining in twenty-eight digestible bites / Patrick Spread.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spread, Patrick, 1944- author.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge economy.

Information theory in economics.

Economic policy.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

vi, 168 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises from the propensity of all individuals to seek the support of those around them and is the underlying mechanism of democratic societies. It is also the underlying mechanism of theory formation. Intellectual support-bargaining is the process by which support is assembled for ideas and theories. Mainstream economic theory, or 'neoclassical theory', can be seen as formulated to advance individual interest. It is mainstream because it has assembled sufficient support to give it ascendancy in academia. It reconciles private and public interest in a mathematical account of resource allocation. Money-bargaining, in contrast, explains the process of economic exchange. Transactions are based on information, so that the character of information itself influences the conduct of exchange. This volume provides a radically new explanation of the functioning of human societies that will be recognised as entirely consistent with common observation and experience.

Contents:

1. Appetiser

Notes from the kitchen

2. Support and support-bargaining

Bite 1: the importance of support

Bite 2: Support-bargaining: individual and group

Bite 3: situation-related interest, social evolution

Bite 4: Social groups

Bite 5: organisations

3. Political support-bargaining

Bite 6: aggression and rigid groups

Bite 7: the support convention

Bite 8: formal support-bargaining structures

Bite 9: political parties

4. Intellectual support-bargaining

Bite 10: common theory

Bite 11: the support convention and intellectual support-bargaining

Bite 12: frames of reference and the institutionalisation of theory formation

Bite 13: natural science and social science

5. Money-bargaining

Bite 14: creation of money through support-bargaining

Bite 15: consumer bargaining sets

Bite 16: companies as bargaining agencies

Bite 17: bargaining position

Bite 18: money-bargaining and mainstream economic theory

Bite 19: income distribution

Bite 20: communal interests and money-bargaining

Bite 21: microeconomics and macroeconomics

Bite 22: linkages of support-bargaining and money-bargaining

6. Information

Bite 23: information and the information interface

Bite 24: information in a bargaining system

Bite 25: codification and transmission of information

Bite 26: information in money-bargaining

Bite 27: role of media in governance

Bite 28: the pursuit of truth

The main course.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030052303

9783030052300

OCLC:

1088880872