Please post your questions/critical remarks relating to:
- Etzioni (2006). Socioeconomics. (p. 633-638) → etzioni_2006_socio-economics.pdf - Stilwell (2012). What is political economy? / The personal is political economic. (p. 2-16) → stilwell_2012_political_economy_(chs_1-2).pdf - Smelser and Swedberg (2005). Introducing Economic Sociology. (p. 1-6) → smelser_and_swedberg_2005_introducing_economic_sociology.pdf
- Frerichs (forthcoming). Economic sociology as comparative macrosociology. (p. 3-5) → frerichs_forthcoming_economic_sociology_as_comparative_macrosociology.pdf
Etzioni
- “member of one or more social bodies that effect the person’s preferences” Does that just mean peer pressure?
- virtue → restraining from pleasure
- Alzheimers → moral obligation to “pay back” the afflicted spouse which has enabled them to live a happy life could be a factor as well. Certainly would be for me?
Stilwell
- Classical Political Economics
- Marxist Economics
- Institutional Economics
- Keynesian Economics
- wealth distributed by economic power → favoring the rich since they profit most of compounding returns
- can we take decisions which actually matter without breaking the system? Even if the aggregation of wealth or power is postponed, it will still happen eventually.
Smelser
- Carl Menger
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Max Weber
- meaning - interesting concept, like personal value or value generation from Gerhard Speckbacher
Frerichs
- “more realistic images of the human actor” → high degree of classical irrational decisions
- little more information after reading the past 3 texts