Invisible hands, Russian experience, and social science :: approaches to understanding systemic failure /

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Hedlund, Stefan, 1953-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Zusammenfassung:This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the failure to achieve speedy systemic change in the former Soviet Union and the failure to achieve development in the Third World. The analysis uses as a backdrop long-term Russian history and short-term Russian encounters with unrestrained capitalism to develop a framework that is based in the so-called new institutionalism. Understanding the causes of systemic failure is shown to require an approach that spans across the increasingly specialized subdisciplines of modern social science. Demonstrating that increasing theoretical sophistication has been bought at the price of a loss of perspective and the need for sensitivity to the role of cultural and historical specificity, the book pleads the case for a new departure in seeking to model the motives for human action.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
ISBN:9781139093019
1139093010
9781139091107
1139091107
9786613127464
6613127469
1107217784
9781107217782
1139088726
9781139088725
1283127466
9781283127462
1139092502
9781139092500
1139091999
9781139091992
1139090194
9781139090193
1139003615
9781139003612

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Volltext öffnen