The nature of social reality / Tony Lawson.

Author/creator Lawson, Tony, 1950-
Format Electronic
Edition1 Edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesEconomics as social theory
Contents Setting the context -- Why social ontology? -- A general conception -- Ontology and the study of social reality : emergence, organisation, community, power, social relations, corporations, artefacts and money -- Topics in scientific ontology -- The nature of the firm and peculiarities of the corporation -- The modern corporation : the site of a mechanism (of global social change) that is out-of-control? -- A theory of money -- The positioning and credit theories of money compared -- The nature and dynamics of processes of emergence, reproduction and transformation -- Emergence, morphogenesis, causal reduction and downward causation -- Collective practices and norms -- Consequences for projects of human emancipation -- Possibilities for emancipatory social change -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2019001602
ISBN9780367188894 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780367188931 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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