The production of seriousness : the metaphysics of economic reason / Claes Gustafsson
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TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: ix, 219p. 22cmISBN: - 9780230354883
- 330.01 GUS
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| 330.01 FRI Experimental methods : | 330.01 GHO Economic theory and policy amidst global discontent : | 330.01 GRE Observing the economy / | 330.01 GUS The production of seriousness : | 330.01 HAG Handbook of experimental economics / | 330.01 HAR Rationality in economics / | 330.01 HAU The Philosophy of economics : |
This book is about the roots of managerial rationality. The book argues that capacities initially common to all higher living have developed into a cultural heritage of sophisticated and well articulated ideas about a logic of incontestably true rational choice. The first half of this book sorts out the basic elements in our ideas of rational choice; the second half is directed at the concept of 'culture'. The concept 'meme' is used to show how simple memetic mechanisms irresistibly lead to constant dynamic forces, driving cultural evolution and, thereby, to the formation of modern ideas about absolute and unassailable rational reason.
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