Markets in historical contexts : ideas and politics in the modern world /

Markets in historical contexts : ideas and politics in the modern world / edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices and governance -- 2 Improving justice: communities of norms in the Great Transformation --3 The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant -- 4 Tories and markets: Britain 1800-1850 -- 5 Guild theory and guild organization in France and Germany during the nineteenth century -- 6 Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin -- 7 Tonnies on 'community and 'civil society': clarifying some cross-currents in post-Marxian political thought -- 8 German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s -- 9 Civilizing markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States -- 10 The ideologically embedded market: political legitimation and economic reform in India -- 11 The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets.

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.


English.

0511185243 (electronic bk.) 9780511185243 (electronic bk.) 0511187939 9780511187933 0511187009 9780511187001 0521833558 9780521833554 9780511496677 (ebook) 0511496672 (ebook) 1280458011 9781280458019 1107149215 9781107149212 0511327064 9780511327063




Markets--History.
Markets.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Commerce.
Histoire économique.
Economie de marché.
Capitalisme.
Libéralisme.
Facteurs culturels.
Philosophie politique.
Markets.
Wirtschaftstheorie
Marktwirtschaft
Wirtschaftspolitik
Markt.


Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.

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