Ernesto: Yes, of course! For future reference, you and others should
just go ahead and send information which in your judgment you
believe we would be interested in./ In solidarity, Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "ernesto screpanti" <screpanti@unisi.it>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism
Dear Jerry,
Is it possible to send the following announcement to OPE-L members?
Many thanks
Ernesto
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The following book has just come out which could be of interest for
OPE-L members:
Ernesto Screpanti
THE FUNDAMENTAL INSTITUTIONS OF CAPITALISM
Published by Routledge, London 2001
310 pages
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, TRANSACTION INSTITUTIONS AND CAPITALISM
Profit making and labour mobilisation
The employment contract
Transaction institutions and social reproduction
2. INDIVIDUALS, CULTURE AND BEHAVIOURAL INSTITUTIONS
Premisses
Bounded rationality and intentional behaviour
The multiple self and false consciousness
The ideological conditions of social reproduction
Conclusions
3. THE STATE AND NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONS
The incompleteness of institutions
Where the state comes from
The state action
4. FORMS OF CO-OPERATION AND POWER
The struggle for survival and the struggle for power
Co-operation Power
5. PRODUCTION GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
A taxonomy of governance structures
The capitalist firm
The market
The governance of knowledge production
6. DIFFERENT FORMS OF CAPITALISM
The need for a general theory of capitalism
Institutional systems
Forms of capitalism
CONCLUSIONS
Toward the autonomy of capital
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