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Title: Economic Persuasions - Studies in Rhetoric and Culture.
Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. Paperback. 238 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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. ISBN 9780857456632.

Keywords: ECONOMICS,

Price: EUR 14.00 = appr. US$ 15.22 Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
- Book number: %23289723