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Chinese Communist Party
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Common Language
comparative economic systems
Cost Benefit Analysis
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free market
Free Market Model
governance and regulation
Health Administration
Individualist Anarchists
interdisciplinary social theory
international agencies
market ideology critique
Market Model
neoliberal policy analysis
Non-market Societies
North American Free Trade Agreement
Obsolete Market Mentality
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Petty Entrepreneurs
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Reagan's Executive Order
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859731499
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives. Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. They also describe extensions and practical applications of the Market model in policy-making in the United States and in explaining how firms work, show its political strengths and conceptual limitations. In bringing rigor and sustained critical analysis to a topic of growing global significance, this truly interdisciplinary study represents a coherent and incisive contribution to anthropology, sociology, politics, history and economics, as it challenges these disciplines to come to grips with one of the most potent cultural symbols of postmodernity.
James G. Carrier
