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UNINA9910810880103321 |
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Autore |
Gudeman Stephen |
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Titolo |
Economy's tension : the dialectics of community and market / / Stephen Gudeman |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-85745-799-3 |
1-282-62706-6 |
9786612627064 |
0-85745-131-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic anthropology |
Economics - Sociological aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-181) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Models, mutuality, and trade -- Exchange as mutuality -- Trade's reason -- Property and base -- Contingency or necessity? The dialectic of practices -- Making money -- Seeking a balance. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms, termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the other may be dominant; however, market reason usually cascades into and debases the mutuality on which it depends. Using this cross-cultural model, |
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