{"product_id":"economys-tension-the-dialectics-of-community-and-market-9780857457882","title":"Economy's Tension: The Dialectics of Community and Market","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Gudeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857457882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGudeman, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Gudeman\u003c\/b\u003e received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell), \u003ci\u003eConversations in Colombia\u003c\/i\u003e, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge UP), \u003ci\u003eEconomics as Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge), and \u003ci\u003eThe Demise of a Rural Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45073522196595,"sku":"9780857457882","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_51261231-277b-4720-8082-9af5f606d40c.jpg?v=1780703416","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/economys-tension-the-dialectics-of-community-and-market-9780857457882","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}