Contesting Markets: Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice.

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Contesting markets - a general introduction to ideology, imagery and discourse, Roy Dilley. Part 1 Economic thought and Western discourse: Adam Smith and invisible hand - of market?, Heinz Lubasz modes of economic-theoretical engagement, Peter Preston. Part 2 Economic models and ethnography of practice: what's in a price? - trade practices in peasant (and other) markets, Paul Alexander Gypsies at horse-fair - a non-market model of trade, Michael Stewart trade in Kufra, Libya, John Davis. Part 3 The articulation of modes of discourse: divine protection and liberal damnation - exchanging metaphors in 19th-century Potosi, Bolivia, Tristan Platt kinship, witchcraft and the market - hybrid patterns in Cameroonian societies, Peter Geschiere wandering in and forest - an Amazonian theory of production and exchange, Joanna Overing. Part 4 Development discourse and informal economy: and state after Cold War - informal economy reconsidered, Keith Hart good government and the market , R.L. Stirrat. Part 5 Market and plan in Europe and China: culture, ideology and economic reform in Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Holy principle, place and transition in Eastern Europe, C.M. Hann market, plan and structured social inequality in China, Norman Stockman. Part 6 Overview and conclusions: markets, models and morality - power of practices, Stephen Gudeman.

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