Social Contracts and Economic Markets

by Judith R. Blau

Book Overview

The thesis of this book is that people enter into social contracts because they are different from one another and have incentives to cooperate. In economic life, people have identical interests--namely, their own se- interests--so they have an incentive to compete. The social worlds that we create, or map, and those that are already mapped for us are increasingly complex, and thus the tracking of rationality is not so straightforward, although it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475785305
• ISBN13: 9781475785302
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"