Economic Persuasions e-bog
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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 "e;transition"e;-the deepening problems of "e;development,"e; persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expres...
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265,81 DKK
Forlag
Berghahn Books
Udgivet
1 juni 2009
Længde
238 sider
Genrer
Anthropology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781845459260
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 "e;transition"e;-the deepening problems of "e;development,"e; 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.