Economics and the Social Sciences: Boundaries, Interaction and Integration

COPYRIGHT......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
1. Economics and the social sciences: synergies and trade-offs......Page 8
PART I Economics and other social sciences: relationships and boundaries......Page 36
2. What can be learnt from ‘serious’ biology and psychology?......Page 38
3. Economics and sociology in the transition from industrial to post-industrial capitalism......Page 70
4. The ‘institutional turn’ in the social sciences: a review of approaches and a future research agenda......Page 98
5. The problem of historical specificity......Page 119
PART II New light on rationality, social relations and the environment......Page 146
6. The irrationality of utility maximization or the Death of a Salesman......Page 148
7. Social capital or sociality? Methodological contrasts between economics and other social sciences......Page 170
8. Where disciplinary boundaries blur: the environmental dimension of institutional economics......Page 192
PART III Flexibility, routines and production in economics and social sciences......Page 220
10. Routines: a brief history of the concept......Page 240
11. Complementarity, cognition and capabilities: towards an evolutionary theory of production......Page 269
Index......Page 296