Economic Lives (eBook)

How Culture Shapes the Economy

Viviana A. Zelizer (Autor)

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2010
496 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3625-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time.Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer. Economic Lives ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity-as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises.Providing an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field, Economic Lives promises to be widely read and discussed.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Activation • Activity Center • Adoption • adoption market • adult-run enterprises • Advertising • After Virtue • Ambiguity • americans • anthropologist • aphorism • Approximation • art dealer • Article (publishing) • Asset transfer • asset transfers • A Theory of Justice • baby markets • baby selling • Bargaining Power • Barter • Behavioral Economics • Black Market • bribery • Business Plan • Calculation • Capitalism • Career • caregiver • carework • child care • child insurance market • children • children's labor • Circuits • Commerce • Commercialism • commercial markets • commodification • Commodity • Compensation • Competition • Consideration • consumer • Consumer goods • consumption • Consumption (Economics) • Corruption • Cost–benefit analysis • credit associations • cronyism • Cultural analysis • cultural meaning • cultural resistance • Cultural understanding • Culture • Currency • Customer • Death • dichotomy • Distribution • domestic money • earmarking • Eastern Sociological Society • economic activities • Economic Activity • Economic Life • economic models • economic organizations • economic performance • economic practices • Economic processes • Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic transactions • Economic Value • economist • economy • Electronic money • Embeddedness • Employment • entitlements • Entrepreneurship • ethical code • Ethical codes • ethical questions • ethics • Ethics of Care • ethnicвacial communities • Exchange • Expense • Explanation • Exploitation • Financial Management • Foreign Claims Act • Friendship • gifts • Grundrisse • Handbook • Household • Households • How-To • Identity Economics • Ideology • immigrant enterprises • income • Independent contractor • Informal Sector • Institution • Institutional Economics • insurance • Insurance policies • interaction • Interpersonal relations • interpersonal relationship • Interpersonal ties • intimacy • intimate labor • intimate relations • intimate relationships • intrusiveness • John Kenneth Galbraith • Karin Knorr Cetina • Karl Marx • kinship • Legislation • liberal democracy • life insurance • local currency • Man's World (magazine) • Market (economics) • Market Economy • Marketing • market money • Markets • market transactions • Market Value • marriage • married women • Microcredit • Migrants • Modernity • monetary payments • monetary transactions • monetary transfers • monetization • MONEY • Monopolization • Morality • Nancy Folbre • neclassical economics • Negotiation • Neoclassical Economics • newspaper • Notes on the State of Virginia • Old age • organization • Organizational Behavior • Organizational Performance • paid care • Parkin (ligase) • Paula England • Pawnbroker • Payment • Payment System • perpetual motion • personal relations • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physician • Pierre Bourdieu • piggy bank • Politics • Poverty • Power • Power structure • Pricing • Production • Profit Sharing • Prostitution • Provision (accounting) • Public Policy • Quarterly Journal of Economics • Racism • radical environmentalism • Rationality • remittance • remittance networks • Respondent • Retail • Richard Easterlin • risky exchanges • Romance (love) • Russell Sage Foundation • sacralization • salary • saving • Self-Interest • separate spheres • sexual intimacy • Sexual Relationships • Sex Work • Sharper • sibling • Snack • social arrangements • Social Environment • Social Group • Social Order • social relation • Social relations • Social Relationships • Social Science • Social Structure • Social Theory • Society • Socioeconomics • Sociology • Solidarity • special monies • Sperm donation • spouse • Supply (economics) • Surrogacy • surrogacy market • Target Market • Tax • tax refund • termination of employment • The New York Times • theory • The Other Hand • transactions • United States • unpaid care • Utilitarianism • Valuation • Value (economics) • Value (ethics) • welfare • wide variety • Work • workplace
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3625-5 / 1400836255
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3625-3 / 9781400836253