学术讲座——Prices as Socially Coordinated Information

学术讲座主题：

Prices as Socially Coordinated Information

讲座时间：

2012年12月4日下午15：00-16：30

讲座地点：

善思堂M529

主讲人：
John Chandler Johnson

Stanford University

Abstract:

Through comparative assessment of diverse social theory, this paper identifies a theoretical frame in which knowledge coordination constitutes a micro-to-macro bridge capable of explaining dynamic system-level behavior. Formalizing coordination using information theory yields a methodologically individualistic theory of dynamic coordination emergent in microsociological processes of structural reproduction. The paper’s coordination theory answers the question “how does social interaction lead to different states of imperfect information?” Applying this paper’s coordination theory to markets offers a theory of disequilibrium price dynamics, which simultaneously locates economic sociology vis-à-vis economics and extends economic sociology from structural explanations of individual outcomes to microsociological explanations of market dynamics.