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In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to one of the meetings of a seminar including Talcott Parsons, Wassilly Léontief, Paul Sweezy and other Harvard scholars, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper...
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In this paper, we provide an institutional interpretation of Schumpeter's analysis of money, banking and finance. This interpretation is founded on an overall investigation into Schumpeter's writings addressing those issues from different perspectives.In section 1, we discuss the widespread...
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(Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.)
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The notion of transparency is widely used as an analytical tool and as a guideline to propose and enforce new configurations of economic life. Focusing on several transparency-making devices, this paper tries to explore both the pervasiveness of this notion and its ambivalence in a number of...
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This paper examines the impact of contemporary pressures on industrial districts and analyses the changes that are taking place in an industrial district confronted with disembedding and globalization. We discuss the following questions: what are the processes and consequences of disembedding...
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The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to … explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge … capitalism can provide an explanation of the growth and the importance of finance. Three topics are considered:(1) the new forms …
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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What are the implications of Piketty's Capital for sociology and political science? Capital's argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g r) societies and the other is...
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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