Economy's Tension: The Dialectics of Community and Market

By Stephen Gudeman

Book Overview

Presents small ethnographic contexts and global financial markets to show that economy is made up of two value realms, mutuality and impersonal trade Explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy Offers an approach for dealing with environmental devastation Examines the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845455142
• ISBN13: 9781845455149
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"