Gudeman Economic Persuasions

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-663-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

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Beschreibung

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 “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.

Autoren

Herausgeber

Gudeman, Stephen

Über den Autor

Gudeman, Stephen
Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and his MBA from the 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 University Press), Economics as Culture (Routledge), The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge), and Economy’s Tension (Berghahn).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Stephen Gudeman

Chapter 1. Introduction

Stephen Gudeman

Chapter 2. Simplicity in economic anthropology: Persuasion, form and substance

James G. Carrier

Chapter 3. The concept of interest as rhetoric – or as a useful social science concept?

Richard Swedberg

Chapter 4. The new social science imperialism and the problem of knowledge in contemporary economics

William Milberg

Chapter 5. The persuasions of economics

Stephen Gudeman

Chapter 6. Conversations between anthropologists and economists

Metin Cosgel

Chapter 7. “The craving for intelligibility:” Speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria

Jane Guyer with LaRay Denzer

Chapter 8. Mass-gifts: On gifts in advanced capitalist markets

Nurit Bird-David and Asaf Darr

Chapter 9. The persuasive power of money

Keith Hart

Chapter 10. The money rhetoric in the United States

Ruben George Oliven

Chapter 11. The third way: A cultural economic perspective

Arjo Klamer

Bibliography

Index

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