Description: Meanings of the Market : The Free Market in Western Culture, Paperback by Carrier, James G. (EDT), ISBN 185973149X, ISBN-13 9781859731499, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK 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.
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Book Title: Meanings of the Market : The Free Market in Western Culture
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Meanings of the Market: the Free Market in Western Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 216 mm
Subject: Economics, Anthropology
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Textbook
Author: James G. Carrier
Item Width: 138 mm
Series: Explorations in Anthropology
Format: Paperback