community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Ontology and the study of social reality: emergence, organisation, community, power, social relations, corporations, artefacts and money
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
March 2012; p ublished online March 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: General Economics; Economic Systems; Production and Organizations; Economic Methodology; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance. 23736 words.
The conception of social reality I have previously defended (and here extend), positing features such as social relations, positions and powers, is thoroughly naturalistic and even...
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Organized Business, Political Competition, and Property Rights: Evidence from the Russian Federation
in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
April 2011; p ublished online June 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Production and Organizations; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies; Analysis of Collective Decision-making. 11579 words.
Political competition and “merchant group” pressures have been pointed to as forces that limit state threats to the property rights of firms. This article presents evidence confirming their...
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