TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amin,Ash
AU  - Thrift,N.J.
TI  - The Blackwell cultural economy reader
SN  - 0631234284 
U1  - 306.3 BLA 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Production; 1 A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design; 2 Net-Working for a Living:Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace; 3 Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice; 4 The Economy of Qualities; Part II Finance and Money; 5 Inside the Economy of Appearances; 6 Physics and Finance:S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies; 7 Traders 'Engagement with Markets:A Postsocial Relationship; Part III Regulation; 8 Varieties of Protectors; 9 The Agony of Mammon; 10 Governing by Numbers:Why Calculative Practices Matter. Part IV Commodity Chains11 African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown; 12 Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade; 13 Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective; Part V Consumption; 14 Making Love in Supermarkets; 15 Window Shopping at Home:Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills; 16 What 's in a Price?An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction; 17 It 's Showtime:On the W
N2  - This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy.:.; Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.; Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach.; Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy.; Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a va
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