Markets in Historical Contexts : Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
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'An important contribution to the literature of the new political economy, this collection of essays speaks directly to the current debate about globalisation ... this collection of diverse yet commonly themed essays will be most useful to scholars and graduate students, but its ideas are important and should trickle down.' Business History
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Presenting a much-needed corrective to the model of the "free market", authoritative contributors make historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the nature of market involvement in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organizations and the ways in which they have influenced market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume recreates those critical traditions and reform movements which sought to negotiate a path between the free market and the Marxist utopia of a society without markets.
Markets in Historical Contexts : Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World,Mark Bevir,Frank Trentmann,Cambridge University Press,0521833558,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Economic History,History,Markets,World - General,Business & Economics / Economic History,Capitalist or free market economies,Economic theory & philosophy,History of ideas, intellectual history,Political science & theory,Social theory
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