Stephen (Hrsg.) Gudeman

Economic Persuasions

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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 transition-the deepening problems of development, 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84545-926-0
EAN: 9781845459260
Produktnummer: 20450154
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 238 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'357 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 3

Über den Autor

Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge University Press), Economics as Culture (Routledge), The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge), and Economy's Tension (Berghahn).