Economy's Tension : the Dialectics of Community and Market.

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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Gudeman, Stephen F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
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