{"product_id":"economic-lives-how-culture-shapes-the-economy-9780691139364","title":"Economic Lives  How Culture Shapes the Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. This book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his collection is an excellent introduction to, and summary of, [Zelizer's] impressive oeuvre, and makes a strong case for economists studying transactions within their cultural context.\"--Natalie Gold, Times Higher Education \"As a compilation of three decades of Zelizer's contributions to economic sociology, the book will help economists and sociologists see how the discipline has evolved over the years. For other readers, the book is a fascinating introduction to the subject.\"--Karunesh Tuli, Foreword Reviews \"Immensely interesting and thought-provoking--especially for academic collections and for fans of the Freakanomics series looking for meatier fare.\"--Library Journal \"Economic Lives reveals ... Zelizer's brilliant craftsmanship in knitting together innovative narratives about the ceaseless interplay between money and social relations, means and meaning, objective and subjective, material and symbolic... [H]er work still reigns supreme in the description and analysis of the careful economic strategies individuals anxiously deploy to find meaning and a moral ground.\"--Marion Fourcade, Sociological Forum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  Introduction: The Lives behind Economic Lives 1      Part one: Valuation of Human Lives  Introduction 13  Chapter 1: Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in Nineteenth-Century America 19  Chapter 2: The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children's Insurance in the United States 40  Chapter 3: From Baby Farms to Baby M 61  Chapter 4: The Priceless Child Revisited 72      Part Two: The Social Meaning of Money Introduction 89  Chapter 5: The Social Meaning of Money: \"Special Monies\" 93  Chapter 6: Fine Tuning the Zelizer View 128  Chapter 7: Payments and Social Ties 136  Chapter 8: Money, Power, and Sex 150      Part Three: Intimate Economies  Introduction 165  Chapter 9: Do Markets Poison Intimacy? 171  Chapter 10: The Purchase of Intimacy 181  Chapter 11: Kids and Commerce 213  Chapter 12: Intimacy in Economic Organizations 237      Part Four: The Economy of Care  Introduction 269  Chapter 13: Caring Everywhere 275  Chapter 14: Risky Exchanges 288      Part Five: Circuits of Commerce  Introduction 303  Chapter 15: Circuits within Capitalism 311  Chapter 16: Circuits in Economic Life 344      Part Six: Appraising Ec onomic Lives: Critiques and Syntheses  Introduction 355  Chapter 17: Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda 363  Chapter 18: Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology 383  Chapter 19: Culture and Consumption 398  Chapter 20: Ethics in the Economy 440      Published Works of Viviana A. Zelizer on Economic Sociology 459  Index 465","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359109415255,"sku":"9780691139364","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691139364.jpg?v=1754123623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/economic-lives-how-culture-shapes-the-economy-9780691139364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}