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ECONOMIC PERSUASIONS
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Stephen Gudeman (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845454367 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845454364 |
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| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
19 June, 2009 |
| Series: |
Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 3 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
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 neo-liberal economics as its accompanying science... |
| Synopsis: |
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 neo-liberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the transitionA"-the deepening problems of development,A" 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 this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it. Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions. |
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3 ills |
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UK |
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Berghahn Books |
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