Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour

Edited by The late Pier Luigi Porta, formerly Professor of Economics, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Roberto Scazzieri, Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Bologna, Italy and the late Andrew Skinner, former Professor of Political Economy, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents: Preface Coordination, Connecting Principles and Social Knowledge: An Introductory Essay Part I: Rationality, Communication and Connecting Principles Part II: Social Interaction and Moral Sentiments Part III: Division of Labour, Patterns of Interdependence and Social Institutions Index

'The complex interplay of the formation and communication of knowledge, the structure of social interaction, and the evolution of the division of labour, is here skilfully explored in a broad historical, philosophical and analytical framework by a truly international meeting of minds, enabling an encounter with great thinkers, past and present, commencing with Hume and Smith. A heady and unusual elixir, finely distilled, and to be slowly enjoyed if its sophisticated benefits are to be fully gathered by the reader.'