Social Contracts and Economic Markets

• Main Author: Blau, Judith R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1993.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.

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, o...

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.