Worlds of Production: The Action Frameworks of the Economy

by Michael Storper and Robert Salais

Book Overview

This intellectually bold but accessible book seeks to go beyond limitations of the reigning neoclassical and institutional paradigms in explaining the organization of economic activity. It does this by construing "non-economic" factors such as institutions, cultures, and social practices as conventions, which coordinate economic actors by defining specific "frameworks of economic action." In these conventional frameworks, the standard distinction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674962036
• ISBN13: 9780674962033
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"