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MARKETS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
IDEAS AND POLITICS IN THE MODERN WORLD |
| By: |
Mark Bevir (Editor), Frank Trentmann (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521044510 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521044516 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 August, 2007 |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
Leading academics offer a historically informed, interdisciplinary inquiry into markets and their social and political relations. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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4 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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