Intersubjectivity in economics : agents and structures / edited by Edward Fullbrook. - xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Economics as social theory . - Economics as social theory. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why intersubjectivity? / Intersubjective agents. Collective intentionality and individual behavior / Reciprocal fairness, cooperation and limits to competition / All consumption is conspicuous / Flaws in the foundation: Consumer behavior and general equilibrium theory / On the need for a more complete ontology of the consumer / Conspicuous consumption in economic theory and thought / The economics of criminal participation: Radical subjectivist and intersubjectivist critiques / 'Everybody is talking about it': Intersubjectivity and the television industry / Intersubjective structures. Market, imitation and tradition: Hayek vs Keynes / Reconstitutive downward causation: Social structure and the development of individual agency / Conventions of co-ordination and the framing of uncertainty / Intersubjectivity in the socio-economic world: A critical realist perspective / Social networks and information / Dispositions, social structures and economic practices: Towards a new economic sociology / Adam Smith's sympathy: Towards a normative economics / The theory of conventions and a new theory of the firm / An intersubjective theory of value / Edward Fullbrook -- John B. Davis. Ernst Fehr and Armin Falk. Anne Mayhew. Frank Ackerman. Ralph W. Pfouts. Roger Mason. Peter Wynarczyk. Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap -- Jean-Pierre Dupuy. Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Laurent Thevenot. Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde. Paul Ormerod. Frederic Lebaron. S. Abu Turab Rizvi. Thierry Levy. Edward Fullbrook. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. II. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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Economics--Psychological aspects

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