Full title: Economic lives : how culture shapes the economy / Viviana A. Zelizer.

Author/creator: Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman.

Call Numbers: N306.3/116

Record Identifier: 74Vv32dOeGaZ

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiii, 478 p. ; 24 cm., Introduction : The lives behind economic lives -- pt. 1. Valuation of human lives : Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in nineteenth-century America -- The price and value of children: the case of children's insurance in the United States -- From baby farms to Baby M -- The priceless child revisited -- pt. 2. The social meaning of money : The social meaning of money: "special monies" -- Fine tuning the Zelizer view -- Payments and social ties -- Money, power, and sex -- pt. 3. Intimate economies : Do markets poison intimacy? -- The purchase of intimacy -- Kids and commerce -- Intimacy in economic organizations -- Part IV. The economy of care : Caring everywhere -- Risky exchanges -- pt. 4. Circuits of commerce : Circuits within capitalism -- Circuits in economic life -- pt. 5. Appraising economic lives: critiques and syntheses : Beyond the polemics on the market: establishing a theoretical and empirical agenda -- Pasts and futures of the economic sociology -- Culture and consumption -- Ethics in the economy.

Publishers: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 306.3

MMS ID: 991009587239702626