Synopses & Reviews
Presenting a much-needed corrective to the model of the "free market", authoritative contributors make historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the nature of market involvement in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organizations and the ways in which they have influenced market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume recreates those critical traditions and reform movements which sought to negotiate a path between the free market and the Marxist utopia of a society without markets.
Synopsis
This book presents a much-needed corrective to the model of the 'free market' which has come to dominate public and academic life. Leading historians, theorists and social scientists offer historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the embeddedness of markets in social, cultural and political relations from the eighteenth century to the present.
Synopsis
What ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? In this book leading academics explore diverse constructions and operations of markets in different traditions. In doing so, they range over European and non-European societies from the eighteenth century to the present, from the great transformation to globalisation. This volume challenges today's neoliberal orthodoxy by suggesting that markets are always embedded in traditions and practices and it recovers a range of alternative modes of thought that are often neglected in contemporary debates.
About the Author
MARK BEVIR is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999).FRANK TRENTMANN is Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College and Director of the ESRC- and AHRB-funded Cultures of Consumption Research Programme.