1st Edition

How Social Forces Impact the Economy

Edited By Steven Pressman Copyright 2020
244 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies. However, this dimension is generally overlooked in mainstream economics. How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader conception of social economics provides for a better understanding of how economies work as a whole.... Read more

(1) Introduction: Putting the Social Back into Economics by Steven Pressman

Part I- Individual Behavior

(2) Becker's Two Models of Social Interaction by Ross Tippit

(3) Greed, Need and Solidarity: The Socialization of Homo Economicus by Roger D. Johnson

(4) The Burden of Knowledge and Schumpeter’s Innovation by Austin Landini

Part II- Macroeconomics and Money

(5) Money as Social Institution: Its Historical Emergence and Political Implications by Ann E. Davis

(6) A Closer Look at the Promise of the Blockchain in Banking and Biobanking by ValĂ©rie Racine and Anita Dancs

(7) When the Cultural Argument Goes too Far: The Need to Limit Particularism and Welcome Convergence on Socially Progressive Goals by Anna Klimina

Part III- Policy Issues

(8) Industrial Policy and Societal Goals: A New Look at the American Case (from Hamilton to Obama and Trump) by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Mattia Tassinari and Andrea Ferrannini

(9) Relational Determinants of International Environmental Cooperation: A Panel Analysis by Mimi Houston

(10) Explaining Inequality: Facts are No Longer Enough by Dell Champlin and Janet Knoedler

Biography

Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University, USA.