Economic Persuasions

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

Economic Persuasions

Edited by: Stephen Gudeman

Volume 3 in the series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459260

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge University Press), Economics as Culture (Routledge), The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge), and Economy’s Tension (Berghahn).

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“The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology, sociology, and economics, and offers much to interest scholars from each of these disciplines.” · JRAI

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Stephen Gudeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Simplicity in Economic Anthropology: Persuasion, Form, and Substance James G. Carrier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. When Rhetoric Becomes Mass Persuasion: The Case of the Concept of Interest Richard Swedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. The New Social Science Imperialism and the Problem of Knowledge in Contemporary Economics William Milberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5. The Persuasions of Economics Stephen Gudeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
6. Conversations Between Anthropologists and Economists Metin M. Cosgel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. “The Craving for Intelligibility:” Speech and Silence on the Economy under Structural Adjustment and Military Rule in Nigeria Jane I. Guyer and LaRay Denzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
8. Mass-gifts: On Market Giving in Advanced Capitalist Societies Nurit Bird-David and Asaf Darr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
9. The Persuasive Power of Money Keith Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
10. The Money Rhetoric in the United States Ruben George Oliven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
11. The Third Way: A Cultural Economic Perspective Arjo Klamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
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Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 238
Keywords: Theory and Methodology; Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published: June 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781845459260