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Albrecht Wellmer
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Average Business Person
Breaking Ground
business
Business Characters
Business Enterprise
Business Enterprise System
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Civil Society
Comparative Cultural Advantage
contact
cultural
cultural impact on economic behaviour
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Literature
Cultural Studies Scholars
decision
Deep Space
Direct Selling Organizations
Drawn Back
economic anthropology
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ethnographic
Ethnographic Contact
Favorable Culture
Individual Business Enterprises
interdisciplinary research methods
Invisible Hand Thesis
literature
Low Marginal Tax Rates
making
market ethics
Methodological Blinders
moral economy theory
Negative Freedom
Popular Culture Texts
qualitative analysis
Scandinavian Economic History Review
social meaning of markets
Socio-economic Class
studies
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West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780415233583
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What is the animating 'spirit' behind what may appear to be the coldly calculating world of markets and business enterprise? Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing but objective 'forces' or allocation 'mechanisms'. This book, however, argues that they can be seen as involving the human spirit, personal expression and moral commitments. It presents the view that markets are not so much things that need to be measured as meanings that need to be narrated and interpreted. The aim of this book is to introduce two scholarly fields to one another, economics and cultural studies, in order to pose the question: how does culture matter to the economy? When we look at the economy as a legitimate domain of culture, it transforms our understanding of the nature of business life. By viewing markets as an integral part of our culture, filled with the drama of human creativity, we might begin to better appreciate their role in the world.
Emily Chamlee-Wright, The late Don Lavoie
