Buying Into The World Of Goods

Author : Ann Smart Martin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801898488

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Buying into the World of Goods by Ann Smart Martin Pdf

Cowinner, 2008 Fred Kniffen Book Award. Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Landscapes and Artifacts How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810. Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass. This innovative approach melds fascinating narratives with sophisticated analysis of material culture to distill large abstract social and economic systems into intimate triangulations among merchants, customers, and objects. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it.

Author : Mary Douglas,Baron Isherwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000358117

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The World of Goods by Mary Douglas,Baron Isherwood Pdf

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumption that rely on received economic and psychological explanations. They ask new questions about why people save, why they spend, what they buy, and why they sometimes-but not always-make fine distinctions about quality. Instead of regarding consumption as a private means of satisfying one’s preferences, they show how goods are a vital information system, used by human beings to fulfill their intentions towards one another. They also consider the implications of the social role of goods for a new vision for social policy, arguing that poverty is caused as much by the erosion of local communities and networks as it is by lack of possessions, and contrast small-scale with large-scale consumption in the household. A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk. "Forget that commodities are good for eating, clothing, and shelter; forget their usefulness and try instead the idea that commodities are good for thinking." – Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429942584

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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057402786

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Trade Expansion Act of 1962 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Includes. "Foreign Economic Policy for the 1960s," Report of Joint Economic Committee, Jan., 1962 (p. 101-154). "U.S. Import Duties on Agricultural Products. 1959," Revised, 1962. Agricultural Handbook No. 143, USDA (p. 329-478). "Import Restrictions Maintained by Countries of the European Economic Community by Several Other Countries That May Accede to the EEC, and by Japan" (p. 480-600), pt.1; Includes "Memorandum on H.R. 9900 of the 87th Congress, the "Trade Expansion Act of 1962,"' U.S. Tariff Commission, Apr. 9, 1962 (p. 905-1020), pt.2; Continuation of hearings on legislation to authorize the President to revise and reduce tariff and import restrictions, to authorize a trade adjustment assistance program, and to establish an Office of Special Representative for Trade Negotiations and an Interagency Trade Organization. Includes Joint Economic Committee Print "Trade Restraints in the Western Community with Tariff Comparisons and Selected Statistical Tables Pertinent to Foreign Economic Policy," 1961 (p. 1891-1957), pt.3; Includes "The European Common Market, Trade Expansion Act and California Agriculture," by Sidney Hoos (Mar. 2, 1962. p. 3699-3772), pt.6.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494113

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : International broadcasting
ISBN : UCAL:C2605004

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London Calling by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112118020343

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Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1944 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : MINN:30000010184731

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Let's Talk about Buying and Selling Farm Products Abroad by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0748790780

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Coursemate for OCR C GCSE Geography by John Edwards Pdf

The New Wider World Coursemate for OCR C GCSE Geography provides summaries of key content and key ideas to support OCR's 2001 Geography C specification.

Author : Frank Trentmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241198407

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Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann Pdf

The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to the present. Astonishingly wide-ranging and richly detailed, Empire of Things explores how we have come to live with so much more, how this changed the course of history, and the global challenges we face as a result.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3070 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104264678

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Filipe Duarte Santos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030553340

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Time, Progress, Growth and Technology by Filipe Duarte Santos Pdf

This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long- and the short term. The evolution of man's notions of time are analyzed from prehistory to modern times, showing how these concepts shape our worldviews, our ecological paradigms and our equilibrium with our planet. Practical approaches to dealing with the major medium- and long term sustainability challenges of the 21st century are presented and discussed. This is a thought provoking and timely book that addresses the main global socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and future generations, using science-based analysis and perspectives. It presents an historical narrative of the advent of progress, economic growth and technology, and discusses the structural changes needed to co-create sustainable pathways. It provides hope for our future on Earth, mankind’s common home. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations This is an amazing, almost mind-boggling book. The author takes a look at the true whole, i.e., the development of the human enterprise since its very beginning. This enterprise is evidently a possibility under the boundary conditions of cosmological dynamics and natural evolution, but evidently also a highly improbable one. It is all but a miracle that the Earth system in its present form exists and happens to support a technical civilization. Will this civilization last long, will it transform itself into something even more exceptional, or will it perish in disgrace? Santos dares to address these grandest of all questions, equipped with a unique transdisciplinary wisdom drawing on physics, cybernetics, geology, biology, economics, anthropology, history, and philosophy. And he dares to dive into the deepest abysses of thinking, where categorial monsters like time and progress lurk. Thereby, he takes us on fascinating journey, during which we perceive and grasp things we have never seen and understood before. One of the best essays I have ever read. John Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019607560

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Review of Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eleonore Kofman,Gillian Youngs
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826493644

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Globalization, 3rd Edition by Eleonore Kofman,Gillian Youngs Pdf

This fully revised textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045093494

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Purchasers of Fungible Goods by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee Pdf