Mind Society And Human Action

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135167311
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Society, and Human Action written by Richard Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed. The many particular topics the book examines can be traced to two central ideas. Firstly, that economic theory, like physics, requires two distinct theoretical frameworks. One treats qualities that are invariant across time and place; this is the domain of equilibrium theory. The other treats the internal generation of change in societies through entrepreneurial action that continually transforms the ecology of enterprises that constitutes a society. Secondly, economic theory is treated as a genuine social science and not a science of rationality writ large. The book also explores ways in which life in society is understood differently once economics is treated as a social science. The book is much of the hyper-formality that comprises economic theory these days fails to make reasonable contact with reality. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and researchers in law, public policy, Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and political economy.

Author : Richard E. Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780203858400
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Society, and Human Action written by Richard E. Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed. The many particular topics the book examines can be traced to two central ideas. Firstly, that economic theory, like physics, requires two distinct theoretical frameworks. One treats qualities that are invariant across time and place; this is the domain of equilibrium theory. The other treats the internal generation of change in societies through entrepreneurial action that continually transforms the ecology of enterprises that constitutes a society. Secondly, economic theory is treated as a genuine social science and not a science of rationality writ large. The book also explores ways in which life in society is understood differently once economics is treated as a social science. The book is much of the hyper-formality that comprises economic theory these days fails to make reasonable contact with reality. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and researchers in law, public policy, Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and political economy.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113516732X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Society, and Human Action written by Richard Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Wagner offers a new logic for economic analysis seeking to transcend the distinction between neoclassical and Austrian economics that has come increasingly into play over the past 30 years.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821372823
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Development Report 1978 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first report deals with some of the major development issues confronting the developing countries and explores the relationship of the major trends in the international economy to them. It is designed to help clarify some of the linkages between the international economy and domestic strategies in the developing countries against the background of growing interdependence and increasing complexity in the world economy. It assesses the prospects for progress in accelerating growth and alleviating poverty, and identifies some of the major policy issues which will affect these prospects.

Author : L. S. Vygotsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674076699
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind in Society written by L. S. Vygotsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky’s important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English. The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotsky’s relevance to modern psychological thought.

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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164318
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Action, The Scholar's Edition written by and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671657135
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society Of Mind written by Marvin Minsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684226061
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Action written by Ludwig Von Mises and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics" is the first comprehensive treatise on economics written by a leading member of the modern Austrian school of economics. Von Mises' contribution was very simple, yet at the same time extremely profound: he pointed out that the whole economy is the result of what individuals do. Individuals act, choose, cooperate, compete, and trade with one another. In this way Mises explained how complex market phenomena develop. Mises did not simply describe economic phenomena - prices, wages, interest rates, money, monopoly and even the trade cycle - he explained them as the outcomes of countless conscious, purposeful actions, choices, and preferences of individuals, each of whom was trying as best as he or she could under the circumstances to attain various wants and ends and to avoid undesired consequences. Hence the title Mises chose for his economic treatise, "Human Action."

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464803439
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Development Report 2015 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans make decisions deliberatively and independently, and on the basis of consistent and self-interested preferences, recent research shows that decision making rarely proceeds this way. People think automatically: when deciding, they usually draw on what comes to mind effortlessly. People also think socially: social norms guide much of behavior, and many people prefer to cooperate as long as others are doing their share. And people think with mental models: what they perceive and how they interpret it depend on concepts and worldviews drawn from their societies and from shared histories. The World Development Report 2015 offers a concrete look at how these insights apply to development policy. It shows how a richer view of human behavior can help achieve development goals in many areas, including early childhood development, household finance, productivity, health, and climate change. It also shows how a more subtle view of human behavior provides new tools for interventions. Making even minor adjustments to a decision-making context, designing interventions based on an understanding of social preferences, and exposing individuals to new experiences and ways of thinking may enable people to improve their lives. The Report opens exciting new avenues for development work. It shows that poverty is not simply a state of material deprivation, but also a tax ? on cognitive resources that affects the quality of decision making. It emphasizes that all humans, including experts and policy makers, are subject to psychological and social influences on thinking, and that development organizations could benefit from procedures to improve their own deliberations and decision making. It demonstrates the need for more discovery, learning, and adaptation in policy design and implementation. The new approach to development economics has immense promise. Its scope of application is vast. This Report introduces an important new agenda for the development community.

Author : George Herbert Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Self [and] Society written by George Herbert Mead and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: