The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde's Economic Anthropology

by Bruno Latour and Vincent Antonin Lépinay

How can economics become genuinely quantitative? This is the question that French sociologist Gabriel Tarde tackled at the end of his career, and in this pamphlet, Bruno Latour and Vincent Antonin L pinay offer a lively introduction to the work of the forgotten genius of nineteenth-century social thought. Tarde's solution was in total contradiction to the dominant views of his time: to quantify the connections between people and goods, you need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979405777
• ISBN13: 9780979405778
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.4" x 6.8"