Intersubjectivity in Economics: Agents and Structures (Economics as Social Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415266971 ISBN 13: 9780415266970

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view that economics cannot continue to disregard all economic phenomena inconsistent with this conception.
The volume is especially concerned with the idea of intersubjective influences on market outcomes. A team of expert international contributors have been brought together to address the question of intersubjectivity from a variety of perspectives. Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary in scope and in addition to economics the book should provide valuable lessons in psychology, sociology, social theory, philosophy, political science and history.

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Review:

"Seventeen Papers begin the project of creating an intersubjective economics by conceptualizing non-atomistic economic agents and the interactive structures to which they give rise."
-Journal of Economic Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415266971
• ISBN 13: 9780415266970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Fullbrook Edward