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  title info:
    title: Social Contracts and Economic Markets
  name:
    name part: Blau, Judith R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 218 p. online resource.
  abstract: The thesis of this book is that people enter into social contracts because they are different from one another and have incentives to cooperate. In economic life, people have identical interests—namely, their own se- interests—so they have an incentive to compete. The social worlds that we create, or map, and those that are already mapped for us are increasingly complex, and thus the tracking of rationality is not so straightforward, although it is everywhere evident. In a sense, this book grew out of two questions: Why hasn't the United States had a second revolution? Or is the revolution yet to come? Many have discussed the current crises that confront contemporary society, such as great economic inequalities, poverty, the declining quality of jobs, the growing power of corporate elites, and racial antago­ nisms. I attempt to understand these problems in terms of the radical restructuring of social life by economic and spatial forces. My specula­ tive thesis is that social organizations must reinforce social contracts and nurture the opportunities for them to be forged. However, contemporary organizations, particularly economic ones, have internalized the princi­ ples of economic markets, thereby inducing competition and easing out cooperation. In defining social contracts, I draw from Rousseau and also from Marx and his analysis of use value. One hopes that new organiza­ tional forms based on principles of democracy and community will evolve. In a diverse, multicultural society, this requires great mutual understanding and cooperation and the recognition of differences.
  table of contents: Reflexivity and Social Science -- Tumbling toward Two Thousand -- Competition and Cooperation -- The Civility of Ordinary Life -- Whence Come Opportunities? -- Economy, Place, and Culture -- The Wherewithal of Social Class -- The Firm and Its Contradictions -- Worlds of Fashion, Lives of Leisure -- The Micrometrics of Morals and the Macrotnetrics of Ethics -- Rights, Goods, and Welfare.
  note: by Judith R. Blau.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  classification: HF4999.2-6182
  classification: HD28-70
  classification: 650
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780585281872
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b102377
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204151141.0
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