The Social Institutions of Capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts

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Pursey Heugens, Hans van Oosterhout, Jack J. Vromen
Elgar, 2003 - Business & Economics - 168 pages
Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, The Social Institutions of Capitalism illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange.

The editors bring together novel contributions from fields as diverse as economics, evolutionary game theory, contract law, business ethics, moral philosophy and anthropology to offer multifaceted but subtly intertwined perspectives on fundamental questions concerning human cooperation.

This interdisciplinary book, with articles written by academics who are widely known and respected in their respective fields, will be of great value to those interested in political theory, moral philosophy and business ethics.

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Stable social contracts 20
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The relational constitution of contractual agreement
38
The foundations of trust
66
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