Politics, Economics, and Welfare

Name: Politics, Economics, and Welfare
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

For most of this century, the habit of thinking about politics and economics in terms of grand and simple alternatives has exerted a powerful influence over the minds of those concerned with economic organization > For most of this century, the habit of thinking about politics and economics in terms of grand and simple alternatives has exerted a powerful influence over the minds of those concerned with economic organization. Politics, Economics, and Welfare is a systematic attack on the idea of all-embracing ideological solutions to complex economic problems. > I: Individual Goals and Social Action; 1: Social Techniques and Rational Social Action; 2: Ends and Means; II: Two Basic Kinds of Social Processes; 3: Some Social Processes for Rational Calculation; 4: Some Social Processes for Control; III: Social Processes for Economizing; 5: Social Processes for Economizing; IV: Four Central Socio-Political Processes; 6: The Price System: Control of and by Leaders; 7: The Price Systemt