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Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Viviana A. Zelizer
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Description for Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Hardback. Shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. This book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHB; KCA; KCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 834.
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time. Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being ... Read more
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time. Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691139364
SKU
V9780691139364
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About Viviana A. Zelizer
Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen 50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of "The Purchase of Intimacy", "The Social Meaning of Money", "Pricing the Priceless Child" (all Princeton), and "Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States".
Reviews for Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
"[T]his collection is an excellent introduction to, and summary of, [Zelizer's] impressive oeuvre, and makes a strong case for economists studying transactions within their cultural context."
Natalie Gold, Times Higher Education "As a compilation of three decades of Zelizer's contributions to economic sociology, the book will help economists and sociologists see how the discipline has evolved over the years. For other ... Read more
Natalie Gold, Times Higher Education "As a compilation of three decades of Zelizer's contributions to economic sociology, the book will help economists and sociologists see how the discipline has evolved over the years. For other ... Read more