From Economic Man to Economic System

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-50997-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

collection of essays discussing human behaviour and the institutions of capitalism. The essays are non-technical and can be used by students of all disciplines interested in capitalism and in economic behaviour. They often present unconventional views of the topics they discuss. Those containing unconventional views discuss self-interested behaviour, selfish gene theory, the meaning and social function of private ownership, the externality problem, the nature of the firm, and the rise of capitalism. The essays offer a useful supplementary reading source for courses in business, economics, and law that deal with human behaviour in the marketplace and with capitalism, ownership, markets, and firms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demsetz, Harold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Where economic man dwells; 2. Economic man's escape from Mathus's population trap; 3. Protecting you from yourself; 4. Rescuing economic man from the selfish gene; 5. Crossing disciplinary boundaries; 6. The late arrival of capitalism; 7. Ownership and exchange; 8. Reinterpreting the externality problem; 9. Firms and households as substitutes; 10. The contrast between firms and political parties; 11. The public corporation: its ownership and control; 12. Public policy's indirect effects on the control, organization, and importance of firms.

Über Autor(innen)

Demsetz, Harold
Harold Demsetz is Arthur Anderson UCLA Alumni Emeritus Professor of Business Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1971 and where he directed UCLA's business economics program. He earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1959. Counted among the world's 100 most eminent economists in Mark Blaug's book Great Economists Since Keynes, Professor Demsetz also holds honorary doctorates from Northwestern University and Francisco Marraquin University. His published work was recently ranked as among the top ten most frequently cited body of works by an economist. Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Economics, among other directories, include his biography. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Western Economics Association International, Professor Demsetz has also served as Director of the Mont Pelerin Society and of the International Society for New Institutional Economics. He has been a senior editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, a founding member of the American Society of Law and Economics, and a member of the advisory boards of the International Journal of Economics and Business and the Journal of Corporate Finance. Professor Demsetz's research is focused on property rights, the business firm, and problems in monopoly, competition, and antitrust. He is the author of numerous professional articles, four books, and three published monographs of honorary lectures. His most recent book, The Economics of the Business Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries (Cambridge University Press, 1995), has been translated into Chinese, French, and Spanish.