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The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange

The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange

Luetchford, Peter
Orlando, Giovanni

Hardcover

Series: Research in Economic Anthropology, Book 39

Business GeneralAnthropologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1787435741
ISBN13: 9781787435742
Publisher: Emerald Pub Ltd
Published: Jun 19 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the politics and ethics of pricing everything through the market dominates public life. At the same time, we know that dilemmas about how to value fairly, but also efficiently, goods and services have been with us for more than two thousand years, since the times of Aristotle in Ancient Greece. Through the course of the centuries, important thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Adam Smith and Karl Marx all devoted considerable effort to try to understand how prices could reflect the intrinsic worth of the objects workers produce and exchange with other people. This is the question of the just price. This volume represents the first systematic attempt to address this ancient debate through the use of qualitative empirical research, particularly ethnography.

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