Economic Life in the Real World

Logic, Emotion and Ethics
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-71655-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

Reihe: New Departures in Anthropology

This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies – questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and Taiwan, the author encourages anthropologists to take the psychological dimensions of economic life more seriously, but also invites psychologists and economists to pay much more attention than they currently do to cultural and historical variables. In the end, this intrinsically radical book challenges us to step away from disciplinary assumptions and to reflect more deeply on what really matters to us in our collective social and economic life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stafford, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Decisions; 3. Substantivist Economic Psychology; 4. Plans; 5. Self-Education as the End of Economic Life; 6. The Politics of Cognition; 7. Number and Structure; Acknowledgements.

Über Autor(innen)

Stafford, Charles
Charles Stafford is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous books include The Roads of Chinese Childhood (1995) and Separation and Reunion in Modern China (2000).