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Autore: | Gudeman Stephen |
Titolo: | Economy's tension : the dialectics of community and market / / Stephen Gudeman |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.3 |
Soggetto topico: | Economic anthropology |
Economics - Sociological aspects | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Economy's tension |
ISBN: | 0-85745-664-4 |
1-282-62785-6 | |
9786612627859 | |
1-84545-926-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810880203321 |
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