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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gudeman, Stephen F.

Series:

Studies in Rhetoric and Culture, 3

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612627859

9780857456649

0857456644

9781282627857

1282627856

9781845459260

1845459261

OCLC:

645101111