LEADER 04503nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910172248403321 005 20250416110333.0 010 $a9786612935312 010 $a9786612087721 010 $a9781282087729 010 $a128208772X 010 $a9781282935310 010 $a1282935313 010 $a9781400825448 010 $a140082544X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825448 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756251 035 $a(EBL)445426 035 $a(OCoLC)355679941 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000111133 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111133 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080411 035 $a(PQKB)10072908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36360 035 $a(DE-B1597)446331 035 $a(OCoLC)979881496 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284036 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293531 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968534 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208772 035 $a(OCoLC)1027200046 035 $a(PPN)170236463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445426 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)45003452 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756251 100 $a20011119d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond the market $ethe social foundations of economic efficiency /$fJens Beckert ; translated by Barbara Harshav 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780691049076 311 08$a0691049076 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tPART ONE: CRITIQUE -- $tONE. The Limits of the Rational-Actor Model as a Microfoundation of Economic Efficiency -- $tPART TWO: CONCEPTS -- $tTWO. Émile Durkheim: The Economy as Moral Order -- $tTHREE. Talcott Parsons: The Economy as a Subsystem of Society -- $tFOUR. Niklas Luhmann: The Economy as a Autopoietic System -- $tFIVE. Anthony Giddens: Actor and Structure in Economic Action -- $tPART THREE: CONCLUSIONS -- $tSIX. Perspectives for Economic Sociology -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aBeyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action. 606 $aDecision making$xSocial aspects 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 615 0$aDecision making$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 676 $a306.3/4 700 $aBeckert$b Jens$f1967-$0903738 701 $aHarshav$b Barbara$0960286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172248403321 996 $aBeyond the market$92176572 997 $aUNINA