http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/09/re-malthus-and-the-most-cited-economist-in-the-world/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/09/re-malthus-and-the-most-cited-economist-in-the-world/#comment-106 Wed, 17 May 2006 14:34:40 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/re-malthus-and-the-most-cited-economist-in-the-world/#comment-106 [...] Several posts below allude to arguments by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Sumantra Ghoshal, and others that economic models and concepts (agency problems, transaction costs, opportunism, and the like) are taking management theory in the wrong direction and are harmful to management practice. A subtext of these arguments is that economists are ideologically biased toward the free market, against community and informal social ties, toward cynical and even "reactionary" views of human nature, and so on. (Even if we're not actually dismal.) [...]

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