Intersubjectivity in Economics

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view that economics cannot continue to disregard all economic phenomena inconsistent with its nineteenth century atomistic conception of Economic subjects. The volume is especially concerned with the idea of intersubjective influences on market outcomes as a recognised dimension of economic inquiry. A team of expert international contributors have been brought together to address the question of intersubjectivity from a variety of perspectives. Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary in scope and in addition to economics the book should provide valuable lessons in psychology, sociology, social theory, philosophy, political science and history.

ISBN 041526698X   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780415266987 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Economics & Social Theory S. Publication date 22 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 234 Non-book description book   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress HB74.P8 I5   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 330.01   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of illustrations
		List of contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction: Why intersubjectivity? by Edward Fullbrook		1
Pt. I		Intersubjective agents
1		Collective intentionality and individual behavior by John B. Davis		11
2		Reciprocal fairness, cooperation and limits to competition by Ernst Fehr and Armin Falk		28
3		All consumption is conspicuous by Anne Mayhew		43
4		Flaws in the foundation: Consumer behavior and general equilibrium theory by Frank Ackerman		56
5		On the need for a more complete ontology of the consumer by Ralph W. Pfouts		71
6		Conspicuous consumption in economic theory and thought by Roger Mason		85
7		The economics of criminal participation: Radical subjectivist and intersubjectivist critiques by Peter Wynarczyk		105
8		'Everybody is talking about it': Intersubjectivity and the television industry by Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap		123
Pt. II		Intersubjective structures
9		Market, imitation and tradition: Hayek vs Keynes by Jean-Pierre Dupuy		139
10		Reconstitutive downward causation: Social structure and the development of individual agency by Geoffrey M. Hodgson		159
11		Conventions of co-ordination and the framing of uncertainty by Laurent Thevenot		181
12		Intersubjectivity in the socio-economic world: A critical realist perspective by Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde		198
13		Social networks and information by Paul Ormerod		216
14		Dispositions, social structures and economic practices: Towards a new economic sociology by Frederic Lebaron		231
15		Adam Smith's sympathy: Towards a normative economics by S. Abu Turab Rizvi		241
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"Seventeen Papers begin the project of creating an intersubjective economics by conceptualizing non-atomistic economic agents and the interactive structures to which they give rise."-Journal of Economic Literature

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