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OverviewIn this thought-provoking book, Bart Nooteboom offers a radical critique of the principal intellectual and moral assumptions underlying economic science, unravelling the notion of markets: how they work and fail, and how they may be redirected to better serve us. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bart NooteboomPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.298kg ISBN: 9781783477579ISBN 10: 1783477571 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 28 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Foundations of markets 3. How markets work and fail 4. Variety of industries 5. Hybrids and examples 6. Alternatives IndexReviews‘This book provides a scathing antidote to the standard propositions made by economists about how wonderful market organization is. At the same time the criticism is balanced and recognizes well the advantages of market organization for certain kinds of goods and services. Bart Nooteboom is one of the broadest, and sharpest, social scientists writing today, and this book is vintage Nooteboom.’ -- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US `This book provides a scathing antidote to the standard propositions made by economists about how wonderful market organization is. At the same time the criticism is balanced and recognizes well the advantages of market organization for certain kinds of goods and services. Bart Nooteboom is one of the broadest, and sharpest, social scientists writing today, and this book is vintage Nooteboom.' -- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US 'This book provides a scathing antidote to the standard propositions made by economists about how wonderful market organization is. At the same time the criticism is balanced and recognizes well the advantages of market organization for certain kinds of goods and services. Bart Nooteboom is one of the broadest, and sharpest, social scientists writing today, and this book is vintage Nooteboom.'- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US Author InformationBart Nooteboom, Professor Emeritus, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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