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Philosophy of Economics / Economics and Sociology / History of Economic Thought

 

Hashimoto Tsutomu Ph.D. (Hokkaido University, Japan)

 

 


 

‘ What is the gPhilosophy and Economics,h gEconomics and Sociology,h or gHistory of Economic Thoughth?

 


--- Wikipedia: Philosophy and Economics

--- Philosophy of Economics (Daniel Little's entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science)

--- Philosophy of Economics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) by Daniel M. Hausman, notable in the field.

--- Description of the Philosophy of Economics (Daniel Hausman)

--- Richard Swedberg (1990). Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691003769, ISBN 9780691003764 Description and chapter-preview links, pp. v-vi.

--- _____ (2007). Principles of Economic Sociology. Princeton. Description and ch. 1 extract.

--- _____ (2008). "economic sociology," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (Abstract).

--- Wikipedia: History of Economic Thought

--- Blaug, Mark (1997). Economic Theory in Retrospect, 5th ed.. Cambridge University Press. Description & chapter links, pp. vii -xvi.

--- _____ (2001). "No History of Ideas, Please, We're Economists," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1), pp. 145-164

 


 

‘ Reading List (1) Classical Texts

 


--- Aristotle

   | Nicomachean Ethics (non-contradiction.com, Aristotle and Aristotelianism)

   | Nicomachean Ethics (University of Virginia Library)


--- Adam Smith

   | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Library of Economics and Liberty)

| The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Library of Economics and Liberty)


--- Bernard Mandeville

| The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol. 1 [1732] (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol.1 [1732] PDF version (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)


--- Jeremy Bentham

   | An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

| An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation [PDF Version, pp.113-337] (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | Defense of Ususy [PDF version, pp.11-59] (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)


--- John Stuart Mill

   | On Liberty (ebooks@adelaide)

   | On Liberty (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | Utilitarianism (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | Utilitarianism [PDF version, pp.258-302] (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)


--- Karl Marx

   | Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund) ¨Part I, Chapter I, Section 3 &4

   | Manifesto of the Communist Party (Marx and Engels Internet Archive)

   | Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts [PDF version] (Marx and Engels Internet Archive)

   | [for further reading on Marx] Marx and Engels Internet Archive


--- George Simmel

   | The Philosophy of Money (Google Books)

   | The Philosophy of Money [PDF] (Copperismoney.com)

   | The Philosophy of Money [Word File] (msses-sc.narod.ru)


--- Max Weber

   | Politics as a Vocation (Dead Sociologists Society ¨ Index | Max Weber | )

   | Spirit of Capitalism (Dead Sociologists Society)

   | [Original German Text] Max Weber, Ausgewählte Schiften (Potsdamer Internet-Ausgabe (PIA))


--- Carl Menger

   | Principles of Economics (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

   | Principles of Economics [PDF version] (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

   | On the Origins of Money [PDF version] (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

   | Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences [PDF version] (Ludwig von Mises Institute)


--- Jurgen Habermas

   |Technology and Science as Ideology

   | The Theory of Communicative Action vols.1-3 [PDF] (wehavephotoshop.com)


--- Niklas Luhmann

   | Trust and Power

   | Familiarity, Confidence, Trust: Problems and Alternatives [PDF] (psu.edu)


--- Michael Foucault

   | Order of Things: Preface [PDF version] (Serendipfs Exchange)

   | Order of Things (Google Books)


--- Hanna Arendt

   | Karl Marx and the tradition of Western political thought (CBS Business Network)

   | Human Conditions (excerpt from 26. THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS) (iastate.edu)


--- Martin Heidegger

   | The Question concerning Technology (buffalo.edu)


--- Thorstein Veblen

   | Theory of the Leisure Class (Project Gutenberg)

   | Theory of the Leisure Class (American Studies at University of Virginia)


--- John Maynard Keynes

   | The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Library of Economics and Liberty)

   | The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Marx and Engels Internet Archive)

   | The End of Laissez-Faire (Panarchy.org)

   | The End of Laissez-Faire [PDF version] (multimania.fr)


--- Friedrich von Hayek

   | The Use of Knowledge in Society (Virtual School)

   | The Use of Knowledge [PDF version] (Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund)

   | Economics and Knowledge (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

   | The Road to Serfdom — the Readerfs Digest condensed version [PDF] (Hayek Center)

   | Constitution of Liberty (excerpt from Chapter 11 The Origins of the Rule of Law [PDF]) (chaight.com)


--- Joseph Alois Schumpeter

   | On the Concept of Social Value (mcmaster.ca)

   | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Chapter VII: The Process of Creative Destruction) [PDF] (ens-lsh.fr)

   | Business Cycles [PDF] (uqac.ca)


--- John Kenneth Galbraith

   | The Affluent Society [summary] (abridge me)

   | The New Industrial State [summary] (abridge me)


--- Karl Polanyi

   | The Great Transformation (uncharted.org)

   | The Great Transformation [excerpt from Chapter IV] (tripod.com)

   | The Great Transformation [excerpt from Chapter VI] (Mount Holyoke Colledge)


--- Amartya Sen

 | On Ethics and Economics (Google Books)

   | Equality of What? [PDF] (Culturability)

   | Well-being, Agency and Freedom [PDF] (Freelogy)

   | Development as Capability Expansion [PDF] (bke.hu)


--- Jean Baudrillard

   | Simulations [PDF] (emilylutzker.com)

   | For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign [PDF] (mit.edu)

   | The consumer Society


--- Marcel Mauss

   | The Gift (Google Books)

   | Sociology and Psychology (Google Books)


--- Georges Bataille

   | The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. Volume I: Consumption


--- Bronisław Malinowski

   | The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders [PDF] (iitalia.com)

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--- Herbert Marcuse

   | Eros and Civilization

   | One Dimensional Man [PDF] (iastate.edu)

 


 

‘ Reading List (2) Economic Sociology

 


--- Arrow, Kenneth J. [1972] Gifts and Exchanges. Philosophy and Public Affairs 1(4): 343-62.

--- Baumol, William [1968] Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory. American Economic Review 58:64-71.

--- Blau, Peter [1964] Exchange and Power in Social Life. New York: John Wiley.

--- Bourdieu, Pierre [1979] La distinction. Critique sociale du jugement. Paris.

--- Burt, Ronald [1992] Structural Holes. The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

--- Coase, Ronald H. [1937] The Nature of the Firm. In: Economica 4 (1937):

--- Coleman, James, S. [1988] The Role of Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology 94:895-120.

--- Collard, David [1978] Altruism & Economy: A Study in Non-Selfish Economics. New York: Oxford University Press.

--- Collins, Randall [1997] An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of Self-Transforming Growth in Japan. In: American Sociological Review 62: 843-65.

--- Robert G. Eccles [1981] Bureaucratic versus Craft Administration: The Relationship of Market Structure to the Construction Firm, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 449-469

--- Jeffrey L. Bradach, Robert G. Eccles [1989] Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 15, (1989), pp. 97-118

--- Elster, J. [1979] Ulyses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

--- Featherstone, M. [1991] Consumer Culture & Postmodernism. London.

--- John Lie [1992] The Concept of Mode of Exchange The Concept of Mode of Exchange, American Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Aug., 1992), pp. 508-523

--- John Lie [1997] Sociology of Markets, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 23, (1997), pp. 341-360

--- Goffman, Ervin [1959] The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday/Anchor.

--- Mark S. Granovetter [1973] The Strength of Weak Ties, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6 (May, 1973), pp. 1360-1380

--- Granovetter, Mark [1993] Society and Economy: The Social Construction of Economic Institutions. Cambridge: Harvard Uniersity Press.

--- Hirschman, Albert O. [1970] Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

--- Katona, George [1973] Psychological Economics. New York: Elsevier.

--- Nelson, R.R./Winter, S.G. [1982] An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.

--- North, Douglas C. [1990] Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press.

--- Olson, Mancur [1965/71] The Logic of Collective Action. Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

--- Philippe Van Parijs [1992] Basic Income Capitalism, Ethics, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Apr., 1992), pp. 465-484

--- Parsons, Talcott/ Smelser, Neil, J. [1956] Economy and Society: A Study of the Integration of Economic and Social Theory. Glencou, Ill: Free Press.

--- Charles Perrow [1961] The Analysis of Goals in Complex Organizations The Analysis of Goals in Complex Organizations, American Sociological Review, Vol. 26, No. 6 (Dec., 1961), pp. 854-866

--- Charles Perrow [1967] A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations

American Sociological Review, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr., 1967), pp. 194-208

--- Herbert A. Simon [1991] Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning, Organization Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, Special Issue: Organizational Learning: Papers in Honor of (and by) James G. March (1991), pp. 125-134

--- Harrison C. White [1981] Where Do Markets Come From? Where Do Markets Come From? The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Nov., 1981), pp. 517-547

--- Oliver E. Williamson [1981] The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Nov., 1981), pp. 548-577

--- Viviana A. Zelizer [1989] The Social Meaning of Money: "Special Monies," The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Sep., 1989), pp. 342-377

--- McCracken, Grant [1988] Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

--- Miller, Daniel [1998] A Theory of Shopping. Cambridge: Polity Press.

--- Slater, Don [1997] Consumer Culture and Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.

--- Aspers, Patrik [2005] Markets in Fashion: A Phenomenological Approach. London: Routledge.

Beckert, Jens [2002] Beyond the Market. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

--- Fligstein, Neil [2001] The Architecture of Market: An Economic Sociology for the Twenty-First Century Capitalist Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

--- Neil Fligstein [1996] Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions, American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Aug., 1996), pp. 656-673

--- Joel M. Podolny [2001] Networks as the Pipes and Prisms of the Market, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 107, No. 1 (Jul., 2001), pp. 33-60

--- Joel M. Podolny [1994] Market Uncertainty and the Social Character of Economic Exchange, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 458-483

--- Joel M. Podolny [1993] A Status-Based Model of Market Competition, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Jan., 1993), pp. 829-872

--- Podolny, Joel, [2005] Status Signals, A Sociological Study of Market Competition, Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press.

--- Luhmann, Niklas, [1979] Trust and Power: Two Works by Niklas Luhmann. Chichester: Wiley.

--- Hochschild, Arlie, [1983¨2003] The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling. Reprinted with a new afterword. Berkeley: The University of California Press.

--- Tilly, Chris/Charles Tilly [1994] Work under Capitalism. Boulder: Westview Press.

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‘ Reading List (3) Contemporary Philosophy of Economics

 


 

--- [Course Materials] History of Economic Thought (Udayan Roy)

--- [Book Listings] History of Economic Thought (Economics Network)

--- [Book Listings] Books on Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (Economics Network)

--- [Book Listings] Books on Economic Sociology

 

 


 

‘ Reading List (4) Japanese Thinkers on Economic Thought

 


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‘ Reading List (5) Classics on Social Philosophy

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‘ Relevant Journals

 


--- Economics and Philosophy

--- Journal of Economic Methodology

--- Cambridge Journal of Economics

--- American Journal of Economics and Sociology

--- Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

--- Journal of the History of Economic Thought

--- History of Political Economy

--- History of Economic Ideas

 


 

‘ Other Related Links

 


--- Philosophical Issues in Economics (Cambridge University)

--- EIPE (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

--- Socio Site: Economic Sociology (at Amsterdam University)

¨ Bibliography on Economic Sociology (in Socio Site)

--- Economic Sociology (The European Website) ¨ Reading List

--- The History of Economic Thought Website ¨ Alphabetical List Archive / Japanese TranslationiŒoΟŽv‘z‚Μ—πŽjj

--- Archive of the History of Economic Thought by Roderick Hay (McMaster, Canada).

--- Library of Economics and Liberty at Liberty Fund

--- Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org

--- Econ-Thought.Net (Japanese)iŒ»‘γŒoΟŽv‘zŒ€‹†‰οj

--- The Society of Economic Sociology (Japanese)iŒoΟŽΠ‰οŠw‰οj

--- The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (Japanese)iŒoΟŠwŽjŠw‰οj

--- The Society for the History of Japanese Economic Thought (Japanese)i“ϊ–{ŒoΟŽv‘zŒ€‹†‰οj

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