Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social TheoryThis volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups. |
Contents
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Some Congruences Between Economic and Sociological | 8 |
The Problem of Cost page | 29 |
The Functional Differentiation of Society page | 46 |
Double Interchanges at the Boundaries page | 70 |
Some Economic Theories and the Boundary Processes | 85 |
Keynesian modifications of the classical position p 87 Contribution | 91 |
Examples in the economic literature of the economypolity balance | 97 |
The Internal Structure of the Economy page | 196 |
The Internal Boundary Relations of the Economy page | 205 |
Restatement of the Trade Cycle page | 219 |
The Investment Function page | 233 |
A Note on Time Lags page | 241 |
A Model of Economic Growth page | 249 |
A Model of Institutional Change page | 255 |
B Propagation of the Impetus to Change page | 263 |
The Central Economic Institution page | 104 |
Labour Occupation and the Contract of Employment page | 114 |
Property Ownership and the Contract of Investment page | 123 |
Factor Generalization and Economic Organization page | 139 |
Institutionalization of Economic Values and the Motiva | 175 |
Introduction page | 185 |
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