Comments on: Why Are Sociologists So Silent on Property Rights?

By: Nicolai Foss

Nicolai Foss — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:06:57 +0000

Babel fish is referring to a hobby project I did simultaneously with my PhD research. It is a book called The Austrian School and Modern Economics: Essays in Reassessment (published in 1994). The main theme of the book is that they Austrians, particularly Mises and Hayek, anticipated key currents in modern economics related to asymmetric information and property rights. The specific essay Babel fish refers to is an attempt to establish Mises as a precursor of property rights economics.

By: Steve Phelan

Steve Phelan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:35:13 +0000

Could it be that sociologists are mostly anti-capitalism (anti-greed?) and thus abhor theories rooted in economic (monetary) explanations of human action?

Perhaps O&M might also consider a blog topic on the recent AMJ issue on rigor versus relevance. I was stunned to find that the articles on reform (to make management research more relevant) shied completely away from recommendations to change the incentive system. Is this more evidence of an anti-economics bias?

Conversely, would economists say they have a good handle on non-monetary incentives – like esprit de corps, culture, and intrinsic motivation factors and the appropriate balance between extrinsic and intrinsic factors?

By: Steve Phelan

Steve Phelan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:06:48 +0000

Translation from Babel Fish: Nicolai Foss is one of these economists. Its has years I bought a book, interesting, on Austrian economy, composed of some small articles (my vision does not reach it in my mini-library, at the moment). One of them, if not me deceit, made a little of History of the Economic Thought on Coase, Mises and the rights of property.

By: Sociólogos e os Direitos de Propriedade « De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum

Sociólogos e os Direitos de Propriedade « De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:40:10 +0000

[...] Nicolai Foss é um destes economistas. Há anos eu comprei um livro seu, interessante, sobre economia austríaca, composto de vários pequenos artigos (minha visão não o alcança em minha mini-biblioteca, no momento). Um deles, se não me engano, fazia um pouco de História do Pensamento Econômico sobre Coase, Mises e os direitos de propriedade. [...]