Economic lives : how culture shapes the economy / Viviana A. Zelizer.

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Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman

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TextPublication details: Princeton (MA) ; London : Princeton University Press, c2011.Description: 478 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780691139364

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Contents:

Pt. 1. Valuation of human lives -- 1. Human values and the market : the case of life insurance and death in Nineteenth Century America -- 2. The price and value of children : the case of children's insurance in the United States -- 3. From baby farms to baby M -- 4. The priceless child revisited -- Pt. 2. The social meaning of money -- 5. The social meaning of money : "special monies" -- 6. Fine tuning the Zelizer view -- 7. Payments and social ties -- 8. Money, power and sex -- Pt. 3. Intimate economies -- 9. Do markets poison intimacy? -- 10. The purchase of intimacy -- 11. Kids and commerce -- 12. Intimacy in economic organizations -- Pt. 4. The economy of care -- 13. Caring everywhere -- 14. Risky exchanges -- Pt. 5. Circuits of commerce -- 15. Circuits within capitalism -- 16. Circuits in economic life -- Pt. 6. Appraising economics lives, critiques and synthesis -- 17. Beyond the polemics on the market: establishing a theoretical and empirical agenda -- 18. Pasts and futures of economic sociology -- 19. Culture and consumption -- 20. Ethics in the economy.

Summary: Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. It synthesizes and extends the most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	306 ZEL eco (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10088

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Valuation of human lives --
1. Human values and the market : the case of life insurance and death in Nineteenth Century America --
2. The price and value of children : the case of children's insurance in the United States --
3. From baby farms to baby M --
4. The priceless child revisited --
Pt. 2. The social meaning of money --
5. The social meaning of money : "special monies" --
6. Fine tuning the Zelizer view --
7. Payments and social ties --
8. Money, power and sex --
Pt. 3. Intimate economies --
9. Do markets poison intimacy? --
10. The purchase of intimacy --
11. Kids and commerce --
12. Intimacy in economic organizations --
Pt. 4. The economy of care --
13. Caring everywhere --
14. Risky exchanges --
Pt. 5. Circuits of commerce --
15. Circuits within capitalism --
16. Circuits in economic life --
Pt. 6. Appraising economics lives, critiques and synthesis --
17. Beyond the polemics on the market: establishing a theoretical and empirical agenda --
18. Pasts and futures of economic sociology --
19. Culture and consumption --
20. Ethics in the economy.

Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. It synthesizes and extends the most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions.

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