[OPE-L:6083] Ernesto Screpanti's _The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism_ (fwd)

From: glevy@pratt.edu
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 18:49:14 EDT


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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