From a systems-theoretical perspective, religion and the economy cannot directly communicate with one another; they are separate function systems with different codes. They can structurally couple and perturb one another, but they can’t communicate. They are, of course, both social systems and both consist of communication, but they employ different communication media.
Category: Economy
Necessity and Contingency
In the West, we tend to believe that things like democracy, civil rights, and free markets are natural and inevitable, as if this is the
Neoliberalism and De-Politicisation Through Economisation
Accordingly, the concept of the economic agent “as someone who pursues his own interest” and “who must be left alone” (270) became the grid on which governments began to organise social life. (Madra and Adaman 696)
US Dept of Justice versus Apple: The Law and the Economy as Autonomous Systems
I’ve been thinking about the controversy between Apple and the US Department of Justice. The first thing to recognize is that when a state, which
Social Systems Theory 