Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

ISBN-13: 9780521768108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 326 str.

Stefan Hedlund

Opis

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences.

Recenzje

'This is a stimulating contribution to the discourse about systemic failures of recent years and an overdue and substantiated call to balance accounts between current history, economics, and sociology.' Heinrich Vogel, Former Director, Federal Institute for Soviet and East European Studies, Cologne

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; 1. Opportunity and self-interest; 2. Scope and tradition of social science; 3. Markets under central planning; 4. Russia's historical legacy; 5. Markets everywhere; 6. Institutional choice; 7. History matters; 8. Concluding discussion; 9. Implications for social science.