Markets in historical contexts : ideas and politics in the modern world / edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bevir, Mark, editor.

Trentmann, Frank, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markets--History.

Markets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The essays in this volume set out to challenge essentialist accounts of the market. Instead they suggest that markets are always embedded in distinctive traditions and practices that shape the ways in which they are conceived and the manner of their working. The essays range widely over European and non-European societies from the eighteenth century to the present, from the great transformation to globalization. Rational peasants, republican economists, popular conservatives, guild theorists, early environmentalists, communitarians, progressives, consumers, Gandhi's descendants and others are all revived. The volume thus recovers alternative ways of thinking about markets, many of which are neglected or marginalized in contemporary debates.

Contents:

Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices, and governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann

Improving justice: communities of norms in the great transformation / James Livesey

The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant / Richard Whatmore

Tories and markets: Britain 1800-1850 / David Eastwood

Guild theory and guild organisation in France and Germany during the nineteenth century / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin / Donald Winch

Tönnies on 'community' and 'civil society': clarifying some cross-currents in post-Marxian political thought / Jose Harris

German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s / Axel R. Schäfer

Civilizing markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States / Patricia Maclachlan and Frank Trentmann

The ideologically embedded market: political legitimation and economic reform in India / Rob Jenkins

The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets / Saskia Sassen.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14921-5

1-280-45801-1

0-511-18607-X

0-511-18524-3

0-511-18793-9

0-511-32706-4

0-511-49667-2

0-511-18700-9

OCLC:

171138591