The Shaping of Socio-Economic Systems (RLE Social Theory): The application of the theory of actor-system dynamics to conflict, social power, and institutional innovation in economic life

Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over economic resources and the related interplay between economic and socio-political institutions and processes. The authors, sociologists and economists, offer a systemic perspective on contemporary socio-economic issues such as economic crisis, unemployment, inflation, economic democracy and development; in their analyses, they identify several of the key factors that ...