1st Edition
Meanings of the Market The Free Market in Western Culture
Edited By James G. Carrier
Copyright 1997
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Joel Kahn, Demons, Commodities and the History of Anthropology -- Susan Love Brown, The ‘Free Market' as Salvation from Government: The Anarcho-Capitalist View -- James G. Carrier, Mr Smith, Meet Mr Hawken -- Alan Smart, Oriental Despotism and Sugar-Coated Bullets: Representations of the ‘Market' in China -- Carol Maclennan, Democracy under the Influence: Cost/Benefit and ‘Market' Oversight of Governance -- Malcolm Chapman & Peter J. Buckley, Transaction Cost Economics and Boundaries: The Firm and the ‘Market', Economics and Anthropology -- William Roseberry, Conclusion
Biography
James G. Carrier
