Invisible hands, Russian experience, and social science : approaches to understanding systemic failure /
Hedlund, Stefan, 1953-
Invisible hands, Russian experience, and social science : approaches to understanding systemic failure / Stefan Hedlund. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
Opportunity and self-interest -- Scope and tradition of social science -- Markets under central planning -- Russia's historical legacy -- Markets everywhere -- Institutional choice -- History matters -- Concluding discussion -- Implications for social science.
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.
English.
9781139093019 (electronic bk.) 1139093010 (electronic bk.) 9781139091107 (electronic bk.) 1139091107 (electronic bk.) 9786613127464 6613127469 (hbk.) (hbk.) 1107217784 9781107217782 1139088726 9781139088725 1283127466 9781283127462 1139092502 9781139092500 1139091999 9781139091992 1139090194 9781139090193 1139003615 9781139003612
312746 MIL
Economics.
Economic development--Russia (Federation)
Economic history.
Financial crises.
Économie politique.
Développement économique--Russie.
Histoire économique.
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Reference.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Economics.
Financial crises.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
Finanzkrise.
Empirische Sozialforschung.
Sozialwissenschaften.
Russia (Federation)
Russland.
Electronic books.
HB171 / .H475 2011eb
330
Invisible hands, Russian experience, and social science : approaches to understanding systemic failure / Stefan Hedlund. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
Opportunity and self-interest -- Scope and tradition of social science -- Markets under central planning -- Russia's historical legacy -- Markets everywhere -- Institutional choice -- History matters -- Concluding discussion -- Implications for social science.
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.
English.
9781139093019 (electronic bk.) 1139093010 (electronic bk.) 9781139091107 (electronic bk.) 1139091107 (electronic bk.) 9786613127464 6613127469 (hbk.) (hbk.) 1107217784 9781107217782 1139088726 9781139088725 1283127466 9781283127462 1139092502 9781139092500 1139091999 9781139091992 1139090194 9781139090193 1139003615 9781139003612
312746 MIL
Economics.
Economic development--Russia (Federation)
Economic history.
Financial crises.
Économie politique.
Développement économique--Russie.
Histoire économique.
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Reference.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Economics.
Financial crises.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
Finanzkrise.
Empirische Sozialforschung.
Sozialwissenschaften.
Russia (Federation)
Russland.
Electronic books.
HB171 / .H475 2011eb
330