Economic Rationality, Embeddedness and Community
Author: Simon Brooks
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13:
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Reason's Neglect
Author: Barbara Townley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-07-24
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0199298351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reason's Neglect does three things. First, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, one that has often been neglected. Second, it deploys Foucault's work to uncover neglected approaches to understanding rationality. In doing this, it allows for a revised exploration of key subjects in organization studies: bureaucracy, technology, culture, practice etc., and organization theory itself. Finally, the book presents an example of new rational management techniques being introduced in an organization and, by allowing individuals to 'speak for themselves', examines how they respond to these innovations, and how they make sense of them."--BOOK JACKET.
Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency
Author: Richard M. Coughlin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected papers from the Second Annual International Conference on Socio-Economics, held at George Washington U., Washington, DC, March 1990, provide a snapshot of the current state of research being pursued across a range of established academic disciplines with respect to this emerging movement, formally launched by the publication of Amitai Etzioni's book The moral dimension in 1988. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Chinese Women and the Cyberspace
Author: Khun Eng Kuah
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9053567518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women—examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world.
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
Author: Jens Beckert
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 795
ISBN-13: 0415286735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDealing with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society, this encyclopedia focuses on the impact of social, political, and cultural factors on economic behaviour. It is useful for students and researchers in sociology, economics, political science, and also business, organization, and management studies.
The Age of Post-Rationality
Author: Val Colic-Peisker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9811062595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has become an ideological black hole whose gravitational pull allows no public debate or policy to escape. Political leaders of all creeds are held in its orbit and public language is saturated by it. This dogma has pervaded all spheres of life, ushering the age of post-rationality, especially in English speaking countries. The authors discuss several aspects of post-rational global capitalism still dominated by the Anglosphere: hyper-competition, hyper-consumption, inequality, volatile global financial markets, environmental degradation and the unforeseen effects of the internet-mediated communication revolution. The book concludes by discussing some utopian and dystopian future scenarios and asking whether the West can transcend its crisis of rationality.
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy
Author: Colin P. Elliott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1108418600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.
Community Economics
Author: Ron Shaffer
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ethics of Economic Rationalism
Author: John Wright
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780868406619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work tackles economic rationalism from a moral perspective. Firstly, in non-technical language, it reviews the economic arguments for economic rationalism. It then examines the ethical defences for economic rationalism and considers its many criticisms.
Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe
Author: Angela Procoli
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0791485110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorkers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social, economic, and political changes in Europe in recent decades, including: the instability of the traditional family; the emergence of new forms of parenthood; globalization of the economic sphere; attempts to impose a uniform pattern of culture; and the breakdown of borders with former Communist countries. The contributors utilize extensive field studies in both Western and Central Europe to understand the meaning of professional uncertainty, as perceived by its victims, and the strategies they develop to face it.
