The Instructive Vision of John Maurice Clark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9256125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Ron Stanfield (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-287 |
| Publication date | 1981-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/758539414 |
| OpenAlex | W2084656639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Institutionalists have always attached major significance to studying character of social change and social reform in industrial society. In? deed, I believe this concern to be most recurrent and characteristic theme in Institutionalist literature. Since problem of social change and reform becomes ever more difficult and dangerous, chance to contribute an essay to a symposium on Clark is a welcome op? portunity, not simply because he wrote so cogently about characteristic Institutionalist concern for social change and reform, but especially because his vision of trend of industrial society was so pres? cient. I believe Clark foresaw in a very special and instructive way developmental tendency which now severely threatens way of life of democratic industrial society. Clark's concern in this regard, as aptly ex? pressed in title of one of his articles, was the changing basis of economic In this article, Clark sought to bring attention to imperatives of a movement of social change from which humanity could not withdraw but only seek to understand and control. In Clark's view, this movement necessitates a new social responsibility
Epistemology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |