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Author Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946-

Title Economics and Utopia : why the learning economy is not the end of history / Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 337 pages) : illustrations
Series Economics as social theory
Economics as social theory.
Contents Visions and illusions -- Socialism and the Limits to Innovation -- The emergence and meaning of the term 'socialism' -- The very late inception of socialist economic pluralism -- The problem of socialism and diversity -- The socialist calculation debate -- A proposal for 'democratic planning' -- Computers to the rescue? -- Can socialism learn? -- The Absolutism of Market Individualism -- The limits to contracts and markets -- The individual as being the best judge of her needs -- Learning a challenge to market individualism -- Market individualism and the iron cage of liberty -- The alleged ubiquity of the market -- Organisations and the conditions for innovation and learning -- Market individualism and the intolerance of structural diversity -- Evaluating different types of market institution -- The blindness of existing theory -- The Universality of Mainstream Economics -- The universalist claims of mainstream economics -- Univeralism versus realism in Hayek's economics -- The hidden, ideological specifics -- The limits of contractarian analysis -- Actor and structure -- Karl Marx and the Triumph of Capitalism -- The hidden, ahistorical universals -- The problem of necessary impurities -- Actor and structure -- Institutionalism and Varieties of Capitalism -- Veblen's critique of Marx -- Specificity and universality -- Institutions as units of analysis -- Variety and the impurity principle -- Varieties of actually existing capitalism -- The spectres of globalisation and convergence -- Back to the future -- Contract and Capitalism
Summary Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of transformation within contemporary capitalisms, associated with moves towards a more knowledge-intensive economy. These forces challenge the traditional bases of contract and employment, and could lead to a quite different socio-economic system. Without proposing a static blueprint, this book explores this possible scenario
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-326) and index
Notes English
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Subject Liberalism.
Economics.
Utopian socialism.
Marxian economics.
Free enterprise.
liberalism.
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Free enterprise
Economics
Liberalism
Marxian economics
Utopian socialism
Form Electronic book
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