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Marketing hope
Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
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Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era
Covers a wide range of industry practice and economic activity Challenges common views of neoliberalism Shows the difficulty of defining right and wrong and of assigning responsibility for wrongful activity
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Commerce as politics
This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert them...
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Living under austerity
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigrati...
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Democracy struggles
Theoretical contribution: the book unpacks culturally-framed and locally-circumscribed phenomena through looking at structural inequalities and through embedding them in global historical processes of political and economic shifts. Substantial ethnographic material and thick description ...
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Contesting deregulation
The collection will differ from the books, because one focus is on the history of the European Economic Community and compare developments in the West (EEC and US) on different international levels. The 13 case studies show that the change to new forms of regulation cannot be reduced to ...
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Money in the german-speaking lands
Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until t...
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Property and equality
The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting researc...
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On the origin of tourist experiences
Author places the key emphasis on the content of the stories in a historical longitudinal perspective with a phenomenological approach. Work has been fully revised form the Dutch version to better suit English readers.
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Explorations in economic anthropology
At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily fro...
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The german skills machine
In recent years the German economy has grown sluggishly and created few new jobs. These developments have led observers to question the future viability of a model that in the past seemed able to combine economic growth, competitiveness in export markets, and low social inequality. This volume ...
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Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in ghana
The main key benefit of this book is its use of decoloniality in the examination of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalization. While there have been many cross-disciplinary explorations of formalization as a concept, the originality of this book lies not only in its interpretation...
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Global ambitions and local identities
This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance s...
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Disrupted landscapes
An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.
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Europe at the seaside
Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which...
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The rise of market society in england, 1066-1800
A case study of one of the most successful market societies, carving out both the merits and limits of markets with respect to economic development and the development of civil society. Draws comparisons between the rise of a market society and modern capitalism in England and the circum...
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People, money and power in the economic crisis
Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.
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Sustainable development
Focus on sustainable development in the Middle East region. Utilises the wide range of contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds. The interdisciplinary integration across the volume, is essential to meaningful discussion of sustainable development.
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The forgotten majority
Assesses the causes of the migration of German merchants to London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the establishment of their businesses and the global reach of their enterprises. Investigates trhe commercial function of British natu...
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Learning on the shop floor
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an ‘incomplete contract’ in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader pers...
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Latin america facing china
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...
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Hunters and gatherers in the modern world
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more tha...
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Slipping away
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This vol...
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Coping with tourists
Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on re...
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