03492nam 22007933u 450 991079136260332120210114063423.00-85745-664-41-282-62785-697866126278591-84545-926-110.1515/9781845459260(CKB)2560000000012148(EBL)544368(OCoLC)645101111(SSID)ssj0000383509(PQKBManifestationID)12111683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000383509(PQKBWorkID)10330612(PQKB)11422807(MiAaPQ)EBC544368(DE-B1597)637472(DE-B1597)9781845459260(EXLCZ)99256000000001214820130418d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrEconomic Persuasions[electronic resource]New York Berghahn Books20091 online resource (238 p.)Studies in Rhetoric and Culture, 3 ;v.v. 3Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-663-6 1-84545-436-7 Title page-Economic Persuasions; Contents; Figures; Preface; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Simplicity in Economic Anthropology; Chapter 3-When Rhetoric Becomes Mass Persuasion; Chapter 4-The New Social Science Imperialism and the Problem of Knowledge in Contemporary Economics; Chapter 5-The Persuasions of Economics; Chapter 6-Conversations Between Anthropologists and Economists; Chapter 7-""The Craving for Intelligibility""; Chapter 8-Mass-Gifts; Chapter 9-The Persuasive Power of Money; Chapter 10-The Money Rhetoric in the United States; Chapter 11-THe Third Way; Contributors; ReferencesIndexAs 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 thStudies in Rhetoric and Culture, 3Economic anthropologyPersuasion (Rhetoric)Rhetoric -- Social aspectsEconomic anthropologySocial aspectsRhetoricPersuasion (Rhetoric)Social & Cultural AnthropologyHILCCAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCEconomic anthropology.Persuasion (Rhetoric).Rhetoric -- Social aspects.Economic anthropologySocial aspectsRhetoricPersuasion (Rhetoric)Social & Cultural AnthropologyAnthropologySocial Sciences306.3Gudeman Stephen864147Gudeman Stephen FAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910791362603321Economic Persuasions3751040UNINA