Markets in historical contexts : ideas and politics in the modern world / edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.

English.

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