Culture and enterprise : the development, representation and morality of business / Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavoie, Don, 1951-

Lavoie Chamlee-Wright Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Chamlee-Wright, Emily, 1966-

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 26.

Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Culture.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the animating 'spirit' behind what may appear to be the coldly calculating world of markets and business enterprise? Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing but objective 'forces' or allocation 'mechanisms'. This book, however, argues that they can be seen as involving the human spirit, personal expression and moral commitments. It presents the view that markets are not so much things that need to be measured as meanings that need to be narrated and inte

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; The spirit of enterprise; Civil society and cultural studies; The development, representation, and morality of business; What is culture and why does it matter?; Culture as context: from the arts to morality; Culture and economy in the modernist epoch; The evolution of the field of cultural studies; Shifting the site of ~politics~; But is cultural studies compatible with economics?; The universality of economics, the diversity of economic culture; Individualism, communalism, and rights; Ethnocentrism and markets; Popular culture and markets

How does culture influence economic development?Which culture prospers? Comparative cultural advantage; For example, different kinds of entrepreneurship; The culture industry's representation of business; The image of business in popular culture; The construction of meaning; A new cultural reading of business; The market order and the moral order; The minimalist defense of the market; Markets and the construction of meaning; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"A Cato Institute book"-T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781134569274

1134569270

9781134569281

1134569289

9781280402302

128040230X

9780203187685

0203187687

OCLC:

475874325