Institutional economics and the formation of preferences the advent of pop music
The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyse the way in which preferences are formed...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
c2004
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| Series: | New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyse the way in which preferences are formed in a social context 1. The amazing advent of pop music -- 2. How not to explain the advent of pop music -- 3. Consuming symbolic goods -- 4. Radio and magazines : valuing pop music through institutional changes -- 5. Consuming pop music/Constructing a life world -- 6. The social construction of value -- 7. Conclusion : forming preferences, valuing pop music |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 164 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9781845420727 1843762331 9781843762331 |