Guest post from Brooke Harrington, Associate professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The post was originally published as On the Limitations of Behavioral Finance at Economic Sociology, 10/31/2010. I found it to be as timely as ever. (more…)
Tag Archives | political science
Collective Intelligence: Governance Systems for the Modern World
James McRitchie, 03/19/2010 ,
Governance in a Disenchanted World: The End of Moral Society by Helmut Willke reasserts the spirit of liberalism invoked during the American and French Revolution when moral attitudes based on religion were trumped by secularization and the invention of modern politics and law. According to Willke, we are now facing second revolution, which will replace […]
Handbook of Social Capital
James McRitchie, 11/01/2009 ,
When Tocqueville visited the United States in the 1830s, it was our propensity for civic association that impressed him as the key to making democracy work. "Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition:’ he observed, "are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which […]
Moving Beyond Cycles of Regulation, Deregulation & Reregulation
James McRitchie, 10/06/2009 ,
The endless cycle of government regulation is explored in a new book, Regulation, Deregulation and Reregulation: Institutional Perspectives (Advances in New Institutional Analysis Series) by Michel Ghertman and Claude Menard. Contributors bring an international perspective, touching on a myriad of industries. While not directly focused on developing a post-subprime regulatory framework in the financial industry, […]