| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Research in economic anthropology ; volume 39
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Research in economic anthropology ; v. 39.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; The Politics and Ethics of The Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Volume Editor Biographies; Contributor Biographies; Foreword; Introduction -- Toward an Anthropology of the Just Price: History, Ethnography, and Critique; Introduction; In Search of the Just Price; Aristotle and the Problem of Commensuration; The Just Price as Market Value; The Just Price as Labor Value; The Just Price as Social Value; The Paradox of the Just Price; Toward an Anthropology of the Just Price; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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Market, Morality and (Just) Price: The Case of the Recycling Economy in Turkey; Introduction; Regulations and Actors in the Turkish Recycling Sector; The State, Global Exchanges and Price; Waste-pickers, Municipal Governments and Just Price; Collecting Licence Holders, Recycling Licence Holders and Price; Scrap Metal Companies, the London Metal Exchange and Fairness; Social Relationships, Morality and Price; The Flea Market, the Container Market and Price; From Gift Exchange to Envy and Deception; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References |
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When The Big Ones Abandon the Marketplace: Morals and Politics of Price in Equatorial Guinea; Introduction; Tomates De Cien: Prices and the Moral Economy; Presence and Performance: Markets, Money and Price in Equatorial Africa; Oil Economy, Price Disparities and Spheres of Exchange; Provisioning and Pricing: Supermarkets and Marketplace Socias; Big Socias and Adut Elang: Between Negotiation and Action; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Pecunia non olet but Does Rose Money Smell? On Rose Oil Prices and Moral Economy in Isparta, Turkey; Introduction |
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Ethnographic Background: The Province and the City of Isparta; Ethnography of Rose Production and Rose Oil Industry; Contemporary Issues in Rose Oil Production; Rose Oil Industry and Price Formation; Concluding Discussion: The Moral Dimension and Just Prices in the Rose Oil Economy; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; What's in a Just Price? Challenging Values at an Organic Cooperative in Southern Spain; Introduction; La Verde: A Political Project in Cadiz Province, Andalusia; La Verde: Values and Just Prices; Worlds without Money?; To Market, to Market; The Andalusian Context; Conclusion |
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Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Market Relations as Social Relations: Prices and the Moral Economy of Corn and Bean Trading in Rural Nicaragua; Peasant Moral Economies and Pricing; The Abstract Corn and Bean Market and the Subsistence Ethic in La Estrella; Corn and Bean Markets in Nicaragua; The Market as an Abstract Entity; Producing for Consumption and Producing for the Market; Grain Markets as Social Relations; Kinship and Affiliation Networks; Traders; Traders in Matagalpa; Solidarity with Consumers: Market Reach, Expectations of the State, and Price Controls; Conclusion; Notes |
| Summary |
Comprising eight case studies from around the world, this volume investigates the social, political and ethical implications of markets through the specific lens of prices. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in economic anthropology, it represents the first systematic attempt to address ethnographically the ancient debate on the ""just price."" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prices -- Case studies.
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Prices. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Markets -- Case studies.
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Markets. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Luetchford, Peter, editor.
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Orlando, Giovanni A., 1963- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: POLITICS AND ETHICS OF THE JUST PRICE. [Place of publication not identified] : EMERALD GROUP PUBL, 2019 1787435741 (OCoLC)1081386031 |
| ISBN |
9781787435735 (electronic book) |
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1787435733 (electronic book) |
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1787435741 |
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9781787435742 |
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