Viviana A. Zelizer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139364
- eISBN:
- 9781400836253
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139364.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a ...
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Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. This book shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the 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. The book's scope ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity—as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises. The book provides an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field.Less
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. This book shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the 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. The book's scope ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity—as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises. The book provides an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field.
Viviana A. Zelizer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139364
- eISBN:
- 9781400836253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139364.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, namely to trace the author's intellectual journey through the obscure borderlands of culture and the economy. Although the chapters draw ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, namely to trace the author's intellectual journey through the obscure borderlands of culture and the economy. Although the chapters draw mainly on evidence from the United States since about 1850, they address issues of concern to anyone anywhere who wants to clarify how shared understandings and interpersonal relations infuse and shape the ostensibly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, distribution, and asset transfers. The chapter goes on to present a review of the author's personal itinerary through the study of economic phenomena; a sketch of how the field of economic sociology took shape from the 1980s onward, including her place within it; and reflections on current relations between the disciplines of economics and sociology.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, namely to trace the author's intellectual journey through the obscure borderlands of culture and the economy. Although the chapters draw mainly on evidence from the United States since about 1850, they address issues of concern to anyone anywhere who wants to clarify how shared understandings and interpersonal relations infuse and shape the ostensibly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, distribution, and asset transfers. The chapter goes on to present a review of the author's personal itinerary through the study of economic phenomena; a sketch of how the field of economic sociology took shape from the 1980s onward, including her place within it; and reflections on current relations between the disciplines of economics and sociology.
Robert Stevens
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199206551
- eISBN:
- 9780191705397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206551.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Philosophy of Law
This chapter explores three controversial issues on enrichment: How is enrichment by services to be quantified? How is an enrichment established where it comprises an incomplete contractual ...
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This chapter explores three controversial issues on enrichment: How is enrichment by services to be quantified? How is an enrichment established where it comprises an incomplete contractual performance? Can enrichment be established where title to the asset transferred does not pass? The answer to the last of these is particularly important in its firm rejection of the view that unjust enrichment has no role to play where the claimant retains title to the asset in question.Less
This chapter explores three controversial issues on enrichment: How is enrichment by services to be quantified? How is an enrichment established where it comprises an incomplete contractual performance? Can enrichment be established where title to the asset transferred does not pass? The answer to the last of these is particularly important in its firm rejection of the view that unjust enrichment has no role to play where the claimant retains title to the asset in question.
Saman Kelegama
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198092346
- eISBN:
- 9780199082834
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198092346.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter identifies the principal elements of an effective inclusive growth strategy in Sri Lanka. It observes that while successive governments have undertaken policies for inclusive growth, ...
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This chapter identifies the principal elements of an effective inclusive growth strategy in Sri Lanka. It observes that while successive governments have undertaken policies for inclusive growth, these have been neutralized by the protracted Civil War. It argues that conflicts affect poverty through entitlement failures, such as loss of public entitlements, loss of market/livelihood entitlements, loss of civil/social entitlements, and reverse entitlements resulting from population displacement and asset transfers. The chapter argues that the major challenge for inclusive growth in the post conflict period in Sri Lanka is to address these entitlement failures, particularly in the war-affected areas.Less
This chapter identifies the principal elements of an effective inclusive growth strategy in Sri Lanka. It observes that while successive governments have undertaken policies for inclusive growth, these have been neutralized by the protracted Civil War. It argues that conflicts affect poverty through entitlement failures, such as loss of public entitlements, loss of market/livelihood entitlements, loss of civil/social entitlements, and reverse entitlements resulting from population displacement and asset transfers. The chapter argues that the major challenge for inclusive growth in the post conflict period in Sri Lanka is to address these entitlement failures, particularly in the war-affected areas.
Thomas Apolte
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198829911
- eISBN:
- 9780191868368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198829911.003.0068
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Creation of ownership structures under private law as well as market liberalization can be seen as central to transformation. This chapter examines how private property rights, among others, ...
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Creation of ownership structures under private law as well as market liberalization can be seen as central to transformation. This chapter examines how private property rights, among others, encourage economic efficiency, strengthen economic competition, make businesses subject to the discipline of the market, and create a capital market. The emergence and development of a property rights structure at a given point in time is always also the result of a conflictual history. One of the advantages of a developed market economy is that conflictual resource acquisition lies in the past and has ceased to play a significant role in the recognition of the existing distribution of wealth. It is astonishing how little conflict was caused by post-socialist privatization.Less
Creation of ownership structures under private law as well as market liberalization can be seen as central to transformation. This chapter examines how private property rights, among others, encourage economic efficiency, strengthen economic competition, make businesses subject to the discipline of the market, and create a capital market. The emergence and development of a property rights structure at a given point in time is always also the result of a conflictual history. One of the advantages of a developed market economy is that conflictual resource acquisition lies in the past and has ceased to play a significant role in the recognition of the existing distribution of wealth. It is astonishing how little conflict was caused by post-socialist privatization.
