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Economic Persuasions

Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture, Book 3

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0857456636
ISBN13: 9780857456632
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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