Economic Persuasions Hardback
Edited by Stephen Gudeman
Part of the Studies in Rhetoric and Culture series
Hardback
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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 “transitionâ€â€”the deepening problems of “development,†persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science.
How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life?
In this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it.
Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9781845454364
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:01/06/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845454364
