Understanding Institutions (eBook)

The Science and Philosophy of Living Together

Francesco Guala (Autor)

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2016
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8091-1 (ISBN)

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Francesco Guala is professor in the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods at the University of Milan. He is the author of The Methodology of Experimental Economics and the coeditor, with Daniel Steel, of The Philosophy of Social Science Reader.

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A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three influential views of institutions: as equilibria of strategic games, as regulative rules, and as constitutive rules.Guala explains key institutions like money, private property, and marriage, and develops a much-needed unification of equilibrium- and rules-based approaches. Although he uses game theory concepts, the theory is presented in a simple, clear style that is accessible to a wide audience of scholars working in different fields. Outlining and discussing various implications of the unified theory, Guala addresses venerable issues such as reflexivity, realism, Verstehen, and fallibilism in the social sciences. He also critically analyses the theory of "e;looping effects"e; and "e;interactive kinds"e; defended by Ian Hacking, and asks whether it is possible to draw a demarcation between social and natural science using the criteria of causal and ontological dependence. Focusing on current debates about the definition of marriage, Guala shows how these abstract philosophical issues have important practical and political consequences.Moving beyond specific cases to general models and principles, Understanding Institutions offers new perspectives on what institutions are, how they work, and what they can do for us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Agency (sociology) • Analogy • anthropologist • Anti-realism • biologist • Causality • Central Bank • civil union • Collective intentionality • Commodity • Consideration • Controversy • Coordination game • counterexample • Currency • Customer • Decision-Making • defection • Disposition • Division of Labour • Economics • economist • Emergence • Employment • essentialism • Explanation • Fiat Money • Homosexuality • Incentive • Infallibilism • inference • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Institutional Economics • Intention • Invention • invisible Hand • John Searle • Legal code (municipal) • Legislation • Literature • marriage • Medium of exchange • Morality • Nash Equilibrium • Natural kind • Natural science • Nominalism • Norm (social) • obstacle • Ontology • Oppression • Payment • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Politician • Prediction • Principle • Prisoner's dilemma • Probability • Pygmalion effect • Racism • Reality • reason • Reflexivity (social theory) • Requirement • Research Program • result • Robert Sugden (economist) • Sally Haslanger • Same-Sex Marriage • Science • scientific theory • Scientist • Self-Interest • Seminar • Sexual Identity • Social constructionism • Social reality • social relation • Social Science • Social Theory • solution concept • spouse • Stag Hunt • State of affairs (sociology) • store of value • Structure and Agency • Suggestion • Tax • Terminology • Textbook • theory • Thesis • Thought • Traffic Flow • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8091-2 / 1400880912
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8091-1 / 9781400880911