INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNICATION AND VALUES by Wilfred Dolfsma ( 9780230250666 )

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INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNICATION AND VALUES

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ISBN 10:

0230250661

ISBN 13:

9780230250666

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

12 August, 2009

Description:

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analysing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is inseparable from both the economy and a meaningful understanding of insitutions.

Synopsis:

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, the changes they undergo, as well as the way they need to be understood, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. Through these social interactions, distinctions are created, emphases are placed and connections and belongings emerge. This book analyses the roles of socio-cultural values in the processes of institutional change. It examines the highly symbolic nature of communication and language and considers how it affects relations within the economy, between the market and society and how it contributes to welfare and well-being. This greatly debated topic dates back to the theoretical considerations of social order in which Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and David Hume were among the most important early contributors. Wilfred Dolfsma provides a theoretical, methodological and empirical study, which argues that communication and language are inseparable from both the economy as well as from a meaningful understanding of institutions and institutional change.

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17, 4 black & white tables, 13 figures

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Palgrave Macmillan

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