The politics and ethics of the just price : ethnographies of market exchange

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Luetchford, Peter
• Orlando, Giovanni

Publisher

Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781787435735

Series

Research in economic anthropology Vol. 39

Subject(s)

• ETHNOLOGY--ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• MARKETS--CASE STUDIES
• PRICES--CASE STUDIES

Notes

• Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019
• Includes index

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Abstract

Comprising eight case studies from around the world, this volume investigates the social, political and ethical implications of markets through the specific lens of prices. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in economic anthropology, it represents the first systematic attempt to address ethnographically the ancient debate on the ""just price.""

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 220 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prelims
Introduction – Toward an Anthropology of the Just Price: History, Ethnography, and Critique
Market, Morality and (Just) Price: The Case of the Recycling Economy in Turkey
When The Big Ones Abandon the Marketplace: Morals and Politics of Price in Equatorial Guinea
Pecunia non olet but Does Rose Money Smell? On Rose Oil Prices and Moral Economy in Isparta, Turkey
What’s in a Just Price? Challenging Values at an Organic Cooperative in Southern Spain
Market Relations as Social Relations: Prices and the Moral Economy of Corn and Bean Trading in Rural Nicaragua
Tuscan Values
Just Compensation? The Price of Death and Injury after the Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse
Practicing the Just Price: Fair Trade and the Limits of Ethical Consumption in the Global North
Afterword
Index

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00334/20	338.52 Pol	Online !	Available