Institutions and Social Conflict - Brossura

Knight

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521421896 ISBN 13: 9780521421898

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Secondly, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasises the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts.

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Recensione:

"Overall, this is an interesting book written with clarity and conciseness and contains a very valid argument for understanding the emergence and development of social institutions." Review of Radical Political Economics

Descrizione del libro:

A thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory that emphasises the role of distributional conflict in the emergence of social institutions.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521421896
• ISBN 13: 9780521421898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252