Economic Persuasions / / ed. by Stephen Gudeman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bird-David, Nurit,; Carrier, James G.,; Cosgel, Metin M.,; Darr, Asaf,; Denzer, LaRay,; Gudeman, Stephen,; Guyer, Jane I.,; Hart, Keith,; Klamer, Arjo,; Milberg, William,; Oliven, Ruben George,; Swedberg, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Gudeman, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Año de Publicación: 2009
• Lenguaje: English
• Colección: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 3
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (238 p.)

As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “developme...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Simplicity in Economic Anthropology: Persuasion, Form, and Substance
• 3. When Rhetoric Becomes Mass Persuasion: The Case of the Concept of Interest
• 4. The New Social Science Imperialism and the Problem of Knowledge in Contemporary Economics
• 5. The Persuasions of Economics
• 6. Conversations Between Anthropologists and Economists
• 7. “The Craving for Intelligibility:” Speech and Silence on the Economy under Structural Adjustment and Military Rule in Nigeria
• 8. Mass-gifts: On Market Giving in Advanced Capitalist Societies
• 9. The Persuasive Power of Money
• 10. The Money Rhetoric in the United States
• 11. The Third Way: A Cultural Economic Perspective
• Contributors
• References
• Index