Gudeman Stephen
Gudeman Stephen - Economy's Tension The Dialectics Of Community And Market - Hardcover
Gudeman Stephen - Economy's Tension The Dialectics Of Community And Market - Hardcover
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Description: Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the other may be dominant; however market reason usually cascades into and debases the mutuality on which it depends. Using this cross - cultural model the author explores mystifications of economic life and explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy. The book offers a different conception of economic welfare development and freedom; it presents an approach for dealing with environmental devastation and explains the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations.
Title: Economy's Tension The Dialectics Of Community And Market
Author(s): Gudeman Stephen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Barcode: 9781845455149
Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2008
Category: Economic Theory & Philosophy
Description: Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the other may be dominant; however market reason usually cascades into and debases the mutuality on which it depends. Using this cross - cultural model the author explores mystifications of economic life and explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy. The book offers a different conception of economic welfare development and freedom; it presents an approach for dealing with environmental devastation and explains the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations.
Title: Economy's Tension The Dialectics Of Community And Market
Author(s): Gudeman Stephen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Barcode: 9781845455149
Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2008
Category: Economic Theory & Philosophy
