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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810880203321

Autore

Gudeman Stephen

Titolo

Economy's tension : the dialectics of community and market / / Stephen Gudeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008

ISBN

0-85745-664-4

1-282-62785-6

9786612627859

1-84545-926-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Studies in Rhetoric and Culture, 3 ; ; v.v. 3

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economic anthropology

Economics - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the "transition"-the deepening problems of "development," persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance-the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science. How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life? In th