Economy's Tension: The Dialetics of Community and Market

by StephenGudeman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $143.56

  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...