Contesting markets : analyses of ideology, discourse and practice /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
Description:x, 302 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1388483
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Other authors / contributors:Dilley, Roy
ISBN:0748603719
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Preface
  • I. Contesting Markets: A General Introduction to Market Ideology, Imagery and Discourse1
  • Part 1. Economic Thought and Western Discourse
  • 2. Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand -- of the Market?
  • References
  • 3. Modes of Economic-Theoretical Engagement
  • References
  • Part II. Economic Models and the Ethnography of Practice
  • 4. What's in a Price?: Trading Practices in Peasant (and other) Markets
  • References
  • 5. Gypsies at the Horse-Fair: A Non-Market Model of Trade
  • References
  • 6. Trade in Kufra (Libya)
  • Part III. The Articulation of Modes of Discourse
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • 8. Kinship, Witchcraft and 'the Market': Hybrid Patterns in Cameroonian Societies1
  • Bibliography
  • 9. Wandering in the Market and the Forest: An Amazonian Theory of Production and Exchange1
  • References
  • Part IV. Development Discourse and the Informal Economy
  • 10. 'Good Government' and 'the Market'1
  • References
  • 11. Market and State after the Cold War: The Informal Economy Reconsidered
  • Part V. Market and Plan in Europe and China
  • 12. Culture, Market Ideology and Economic Reform in Czechoslovakia
  • 13. Market Principle, Market-place and the Transition in Eastern Europe
  • 14. Market, Plan and Structured Social Inequality in China
  • References
  • Part vii. Overview and Conclusions
  • 15. Markets, Models and Morality The Power of Practices
  • References
  • Index