Oikos and Market

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Author: Stephen Gudeman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1782386963

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Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume’s six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.

The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II

The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II PDF

Author: Hans Derks

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-03-21

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9004513760

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The Market and the Oikos analyses from a global perspective the relationships between markets and households, families and states (Vol. I) to towns versus country sides, the focus of this second volume, proceeding from early history to contemporary China.

The Market and the Oikos

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Author: Hans Derks

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-27

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 9004383913

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The many elements of the fundamental antagonism of Market versus Oikos (= family, household or State) are analyzed and defined in Western and Chinese historical and present contexts. In this exercise, Max Weber is chosen as our “sparring partner” because of his Chinese and Western writings.

Economy and Ritual

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Author: Stephen Gudeman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1785335197

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According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies in this volume contest this view. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the six ethnographies extend from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan. Each one illuminates the economic and ritual changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society. Cutting against the idea that economy only means markets and that market action exhausts the meaning of economy, the studies show that much of what is critical for a people’s economic life takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the negation of the everyday world of economising.

Financialization

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Author: Chris Hann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1789207525

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Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization, and urban social relations in general. Central themes include the indebtedness of individuals and households, the impact of digital technologies, the struggle for housing, financial education, and political contestation.

From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China

From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China PDF

Author: Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9004330097

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In From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Koen Rutten examine China’s indigenous economic discourse and its relation to both economic policy-making and the overall trajectory of development from the First Five Year Plan in 1953 to 2016. In so doing, this volume demonstrates that although the form of the current economic system and its theoretical underpinnings bear scant resemblance to those of the planned economy, economic policy-making still relies on the principle of accelerated accumulation, which lay at the heart of the economic development project in the early years of the People’s Republic.

Tree Crops

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Author: Joseph Russell Smith

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780933280441

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Comprehensive survey of the potentialities of nut trees as producers of food and as conservers of soil.

God the Economist

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Author: M. Douglas Meeks

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781451413366

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God does not appear in the modern market. For most economists this is as it should be. It is in no way necessary, according to modern economic theory, to consider God when thinking about economy. Indeed, the absence of God in economic matters is viewed as necessary to the great advances in modern economy. The difficulty with modern market economies, however, is that human livelihood is also left out of the theory and practice of the market economy. ?"I propose to bring the church's teaching about God, the doctrine of the Trinity, to bear on the masked connections between God and economy. I will treat the Trinity as the way of understanding what the Bible calls the 'economy of God.'?

Wine Is Our Bread

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Author: Daniela Ana

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1800733429

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Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines. Drawing on theories of globalization, economic anthropology and political economy, the book contributes to understanding how crises and inequalities in capitalism lead to the ‘creative destruction’ of local products, their accelerated standardization and the increased exploitation of labour.

Bigger Fish to Fry

Bigger Fish to Fry PDF

Author: David E. Sutton

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-09-17

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1805393707

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What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author’s anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.

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