Important scholars offer new perspectives on the formation and growth of social institutions

A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutions Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines t

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Seumas Miller provides an exciting new philosophical theory of contemporary social institutions and the ethical challenges they confront.

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