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The social institutions of capitalism : evolution and design of social contracts / edited by Pursey Heugens (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands) Hans van Oosterhout (Assistant Professor of Institutions and Institutional Design, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands) and Jack Vromen (Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Economics, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003Description: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9781035351565
- 320.1/1 22
- JC336
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Summary: Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, The Social Institutions of Capitalism illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange. The editors bring together novel contributions from fields as diverse as economics, evolutionary game theory, contract law, business ethics, moral philosophy and anthropology to offer multifaceted but subtly intertwined perspectives on fundamental questions concerning human cooperation. This interdisciplinary book, with articles written by academics who are widely known and respected in their respective fields, will be of great value to those interested in political theory, moral philosophy and business ethicsPPN: PPN: 1922105341Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-77-EEC | ZDB-77-ECE
Contents: 1. Social contract theories: E pluribus unum? -- 2. Stable social contracts -- 3. The relational constitution of contractual agreement -- 4. The foundations of trust -- 5. Economics and the social contract -- 6. Social contracts, sic et non -- 7. Sources of normativity: Reflectivity versus social contracting -- 8. Justice-conventionalism, justice-platonism and the social contract -- Index.
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