{"product_id":"economic-action-in-theory-and-practice-9780857241177","title":"Economic Action in Theory and Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains 14 chapters that focus on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. This title takes a look at urban food provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors. Dedication.  Introduction.  Borrowed places: Eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan.  Resolving the problem of inequity in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: Approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Louis Kelso.  Is Joseph Schumpeter's theory of economic development still useful? The case of a semirural community in Colombia.  Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town.  The domestic economy and its implications for social complexity: Spondylus craft production in coastal Ecuador.  an investigation into donkeys and donkey trading in Kashgar, Xinjiang, ChinaDonkey bazaar, a bazaar of hell:.  Urban food provisioning in Cameroon: Regional banana plantain networks linking Yaounde and the villages of Koumou and Oban.  Hostile worlds and questionable speculation: Recognizing the plurality of views about art and the market.  Agents of hybridity: Class, culture brokers, and the entrepreneurial imagination in cosmopolitan Cairo.  Early markets and the market cross.  Shifting transactional identities: Bazaar-style trade and risk management in the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma (Romania).  Reverse osmosis and a can of beans: An ethnographic study of Latin American immigrant shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee.  Working hard and staying safe: Drilling rig hands in Alberta.  Book review: Market and society: The great transformation today (Chris Hann and Keith Hart, Eds.).  Research in Economic Anthropology.  Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations.  Copyright page.","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406286233943,"sku":"9780857241177","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/economic-action-in-theory-and-practice-9780857241177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}