1st Edition
The Shaping of Socio-Economic Systems The application of the theory of actor-system dynamics to conflict, social power, and institutional innovation in economic life
Foreword. 1. Introduction Part 1. Modelling Socio-Economic Systems and Contemporary Problems 2. The Shaping of Socio-Economic Crisis: Societal Change and Theoretical Future 3. Inflation, Politics and Social Change: Actor-Oriented Systems Analysis 4. The Dynamics of Inflation and Unemployment in Belgium: Actors, Institutional Settings, and Social Structure 5. Socio-Political Cleavages: The Illegitimate State and Inflation in Latin America Part 2. Institutional Innovation and Alternative Societal Development: Studies in Economic Democracy 6. Conflict Resolution and Conflict Development: The Workers’ Take-Over at the Lip Factory 7. Yugoslav Post-War Development Patterns and Dialectics: Self-Management, Market and Political Institutions in Conflict 8. Institutional Conflict and Power: Capital, Market and Other Constraints on Self-Management Part 3. Development and Underdevelopment 9. Wealth and Poverty Among Nations: A Social System Perspective on Inequality, Uneven Development and Dependence in the World Economy 10. Dependent Development: The Case of Mexico 11. Technology, Underdevelopment and Social Systems: Problems of Technology Transfer
Biography
Thomas Baumgartner, Tom Burns, Philippe DeVille
