On May 11, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> OTOH, he seems to be right on the money to insist that economic
> relations are always embedded in social relations, and therefore there
> is not such a thing as "global capitalism" or single economic
> rationality for that matter. He does that mainly to question the
> validity of economic theories that tend to employ 18th century fairy
> tales window-dressed with mathematical abstractions while viewing
> actual social behavior as aberrations and deviations from "pure
> rationality." And for doing this he deserves a huge credit. Let's
> face it, the "dismal science" emperor has no clothes, but few people
> seem to notice.
I'm pretty sure Bourdieu did the same in his "Les structures sociales de l'économie".
Jean-Christophe