Southern Cultures: Moral/Economies: Volume 28, Number 4 - Winter 2022 Issue

Book Overview

The Moral/Economies issue asks what is ownable, who owns, who owes, who makes, who takes, what is work, what is worth? What is a fair price, and who pays it? Is a given transaction a theft, a trade, a gift? If the arid abstraction of "economics" relentlessly flattens this complexity into two dimensions, the notion of "moral economy" demands, in the words of historian Nell Irvin Painter, "a fully loaded cost accounting" that considers the true price...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807852244
• ISBN13: 9780807852248
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Unc Center for the Study of the American Sout
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.8" x 9.8"