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The Production of Seriousness

The Metaphysics of Economic Reason

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  • © 2012

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  1. Claes Gustafsson
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Truth and the Self-Evident

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 1-15

  3. Practical Reason

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 16-49

  4. The Elementary Forms of the Truth Experience

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 50-98

  5. The Relativistic Basis of Understanding

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 99-125

  6. The Structural Dynamics of Social Thinking

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 126-173

  7. The Relativistic Perspective

    • Claes Gustafsson
    Pages 174-197

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 198-219
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This book is about the roots of managerial rationality. A theoretical base, founded on the concept of 'memetics' is developed in order to explain human thinking and human reason as products of cultural evolution. Cultural change and development are explained by simple, value-driven memetic mechanisms like 'ritualization' and 'extremization'.

About the author

CLAES GUSTAFSSON is Professor of Industrial Economics and Management (em.) at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In addition to this he is an affiliated professor of industrial management at the Ångström Laboratories, Uppsala University Sweden. His research interests include management and organization, business ethics, organizational culture, decision theory and business philosophy.

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