ISBN:
0415233585
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0415233593
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9780415233583
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 148 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the modern world economy 26
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Enterprise : The Development, Representation and Morality of Business
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Economic development Social aspects
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Business ethics
;
Culture
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This remarkable new work reconciles two distinct disciplinary fields; the study of culture and the study of markets, to expand our understanding of the world of markets and business enterprise
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; The spirit of enterprise; Civil society and cultural studies; The development, representation, and morality of business; What is culture and why does it matter?; Culture as context: from the arts to morality; Culture and economy in the modernist epoch; The evolution of the field of cultural studies; Shifting the site of ~politics~; But is cultural studies compatible with economics?; The universality of economics, the diversity of economic culture; Individualism, communalism, and rights; Ethnocentrism and markets; Popular culture and markets
Description / Table of Contents:
How does culture influence economic development?Which culture prospers? Comparative cultural advantage; For example, different kinds of entrepreneurship; The culture industry's representation of business; The image of business in popular culture; The construction of meaning; A new cultural reading of business; The market order and the moral order; The minimalist defense of the market; Markets and the construction of meaning; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
"A Cato Institute book"-T.p
,
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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