ISBN:
0521564786
Language:
English
Pages:
560 S
,
ill
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Murphy Institute studies in political economy
DDC:
330.122
Keywords:
Culture
;
Historical sociology
;
Economic anthropology
;
Commerce Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Markt
;
Kultursoziologie
Description / Table of Contents:
"A Yankee Diogenes" : Thoreau and the market / Richard F. Teichgraeber III -- Need and honor in Balzac's Père Goriot : reflections on a vision of laissez-faire society / William M. Reddy -- The reformist dimension of Talcott Parson's early social theory / Howard Brick -- The strange career of The lonely crowd : or, the antinomies of autonomy / Wilfred M. McClay -- Persons as uncaused causes : John Stuart Mill, the spirit of capitalism, and the "invention" of formalism / Thomas L. Haskell.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the culture of the market / Thomas L. Haskell and Richard F. Teichgraeber III -- The ruling class in the marketplace : nobles and money in early modern France / Jonathan Dewald -- Territorial gardens : the control of land in seventeenth-century French formal gardens / Chandra Mukerji -- Money, equality, fraternity : freemasonry and the social order in eighteenth-century Europe / Margaret C. Jacob -- Market culture, reckless passion, and the Victorian reconstruction of punishment / Martin J. Wiener -- New cultural heroes in the early national period / Joyce Appleby -- Preserving "the natural equality of rank and influence" : liberalism, republicanism, and equality of condition in Jacksonian politics / Richard B. Latner -- Banking on language : the currency of Alexander Bryan Johnson / Jean-Christophe Agnew -- An entrepreneur in spite of himself : Edgar Degas and the market / Marilyn R. Brown.
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