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Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Economics

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Anchoring the Social World

We construct the social world in a kind of iterative way. When we anchor something, we might anchor a law. What we do in anchoring is set up these conditionals. And that is a process that kind of accruise over the history of human kind. We're using existing social categories to build new social categories until we have very sophisticated things like corporations and universities and bonds and money. But they no, it's not an, well, i'm geting later. I'm saying, once you've got your yorside, maybe it could be. Butin principle, later, yes.

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