{"product_id":"9780792321675","title":"International Studies in the Service Economy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eInternational Studies in the Service Economy\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGiarini, O.; Stahel, W.R.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eI consider it a privilege to have been invited to write a preface for \"The Limits to Certainty\". It is however paradoxical that a theo­ retical physicist be asked to write about a monograph dealing mainly with service economics. Notwithstanding, I am delighted to do so. Indeed, it is striking that two so widely different fields like physics and social science, and more especially economics, can interact in such a constructive way. There is no question here of reductionism. Nobody claims to be able to reduce social scien­ ces to physics, nor to use patterns of social interaction in order to formulate new laws for atoms. What is at stake here is more im­ portant than reduction; the age-old separation between the so-cal­ led \"hard\" and \"soft sciences\" is breaking down. This separation has a long history. First, one should recall the influence of Newton's achievement on the formulation of scienti­ fic goals. This influence led to the formulation of equilibrium mo­ dels for supply\/demand adjustment. As was noticed by Walter Weisskopf: \"the Newtonian paradigm underlying classical and non-classical economics interpreted the economy according to the patterns developed in classical physics and mechanics, in analogy to the planetary system, to a machine or clockwork: a closed auto­ nomous system ruled by endogenous factors of a highly selective nature, self-regulating and moving to a determinate, predictable point of equilibrium\" (The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (1984), Vol. 9, no. 33, pp. 335-360).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1993-04-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792321675\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-1775-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 271\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44398585086092,"sku":"9780792321675","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792321675.jpg?v=1771516762","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792321675","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}