<p>In recent years economics has been the subject of increasingly severe criticism. It has failed both to predict and to counteract the economic crisis now aftlicting nearly the whole Western world. Economic life is more disrupted than ever: - the rate of inflation has risen alarmingly - unemploymen
Economics and sociology: towards an integration
โ Scribed by Neil J. Smelser (auth.), T. Huppes (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 187
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
On the relevance of economic sociology for economics....Pages 1-26
Economic sociology or sociological economics?....Pages 27-50
Institutional versus orthodox economics and the interdisciplinary approach....Pages 51-75
In defense of institutionalism....Pages 76-95
Convergence and diversification in the methodologies of economics and sociology....Pages 96-127
Anomie and inflation....Pages 128-160
Impressions of a symposium....Pages 161-178
โฆ Subjects
Economics general
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