Research Catalog

Title

Economic organizations and social systems / Robert A. Solo.

Author

Solo, Robert A.

Publication

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xxi, 505 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Comparative economics
• United States > Economic conditions > 1945-
• Sociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Three Forms of Economic Organization -- 2. The Theory of Organizational Choice -- 3. Decentralized Market-Direction and Resource Allocation -- 4. Centralized Political-Direction and Resource Allocation -- 5. Organizational Market-Negotiation and Resource Allocation -- 6. Economic Progress as a Social Function -- 7. The Insignificance of Capital Accumulation -- 8. The Economics of Transformation -- 9. Economic Progress as a System -- 10. The Changing System of Economic Progress -- 11. Population and Progress: A Footnote -- 12. Decentralized Market-Direction and the Organization of Economic Progress -- 13. Centralized Political-Direction and the Organization of Economic Progress -- 14. The Economy of Autonomous Organization and Economic Progress -- 15. Economic Organization as a Social Environment -- 16. Decentralized Market-Direction as a Social Environment -- 17. Centralized Political-Direction as a Social Environment --
• 18. The Economy of Autonomous Organizations as a Social Environment -- 19. The Analysis of a National Economy -- 20. The Enterprise Economy -- 21. Problems and Policies in Organizing Production and Distribution in the Enterprise Economy -- 22. Problems and Policies in Organizing Economic Progress in the Enterprise Economy -- 23. The Political Economy -- 24. Research and Development and the American Political Economy -- 25. The Institutional Economy -- 26. The Crisis in Western Education -- 27. The Organization of Academic Science -- 28. The Household Economy -- 29. The Halfway House -- 30. Functional, Cognitive, and Cultural Systems -- 31. Economic Revolution as a Revolution in Cognition -- 32. The Revolutionary Leadership -- 33. Economic Revolution in Russia -- 34. The Cultural-Cognitive Basis for Economic Development -- 35. Development that Failed: The Case of Mexico -- 36. The World Environment of Economic Development -- 37. Economic Development in Puerto Rico --
• 38. Policy and Strategy.

ISBN

• 0472097237 (cloth: alk. paper)
• 0472067230 (pbk.: alk. paper)

OCLC

• ocm46034002
• SCSB-4032359

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries