Zelizer Economic Lives

How Culture Shapes the Economy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3625-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zelizer, Viviana A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction: The Lives behind Economic Lives 1

Part one: Valuation of Human Lives

Introduction 13

Chapter 1: Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in Nineteenth-Century America 19

Chapter 2: The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children's Insurance in the United States 40

Chapter 3: From Baby Farms to Baby M 61

Chapter 4: The Priceless Child Revisited 72

Part Two: The Social Meaning of Money Introduction 89

Chapter 5: The Social Meaning of Money: "Special Monies" 93

Chapter 6: Fine Tuning the Zelizer View 128

Chapter 7: Payments and Social Ties 136

Chapter 8: Money, Power, and Sex 150

Part Three: Intimate Economies

Introduction 165

Chapter 9: Do Markets Poison Intimacy? 171

Chapter 10: The Purchase of Intimacy 181

Chapter 11: Kids and Commerce 213

Chapter 12: Intimacy in Economic Organizations 237

Part Four: The Economy of Care

Introduction 269

Chapter 13: Caring Everywhere 275

Chapter 14: Risky Exchanges 288

Part Five: Circuits of Commerce

Introduction 303

Chapter 15: Circuits within Capitalism 311

Chapter 16: Circuits in Economic Life 344

Part Six: Appraising Ec onomic Lives: Critiques and Syntheses

Introduction 355

Chapter 17: Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda 363

Chapter 18: Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology 383

Chapter 19: Culture and Consumption 398

Chapter 20: Ethics in the Economy 440

Published Works of Viviana A. Zelizer on Economic Sociology 459

Index 465

Über Autor(innen)

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.