[PEN-L:9407] Re: socio-economics?

[Thad Williamson <thwilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Etzioni had a book in the early '80s on the need to reindustrialize America,
framed as a moral issue practically. it was not very progressive but not
reaganomics either. can't remember what his prescription was exactly.

the journal is actually called Review of Social Economy I think (or is this
still different?) and is quite good, moderately progressive. Has articles on
people like Polanyi and Schumacher and so forth.

There was an excellent slam on Etzioni's most recent book, The Golden Rule,
by Richard Sennett in the Times Literary Supplement in February.

Thad


At 10:03 AM 4/8/97 -0700, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>> From:          James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject:       [PEN-L:9386] socio-economics?
>
>> there's some sort of distinction between "socio-economics" (Etzioni)
>> and social economics (the REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS). To make
>> things worse, there are several flavors of institutional economics,
>> which is very similar to social economics. If any one knows what the
>> differences are between these different visions of economics, I for
>> one would like to be informed. (beyond the fact that Etzioni is a
>> self-promoting conservative.) . . .
>
>It's not clear to me that Etzioni has any particular vision of
>economics, though I would be happy to be educated on this
>score.  He looks mostly like an entrepreneur trying to sell a
>new ideological product, which as you say is basically a new strain
>of centrism/conservatism.
>
>MBS
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