Stephen Gudeman

Gebundenes Buch

Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Beschreibung

Presents small ethnographic contexts and global financial markets to show that economy is made up of two value realms, mutuality and impersonal trade Explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy Offers an approach for dealing with environmental devastation Examines the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations

Autor

Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge UP), Economics as Culture (Routledge), and The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781845455149
• ISBN-10: 1845455142
• Artikelnr.: 40423734