Economic lives : how culture shapes the economy / Viviana A. Zelizer.
Economic lives : how culture shapes the economy / Viviana A. Zelizer.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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N306.3/116
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English
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xiii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : The lives behind economic lives -- pt. 1. Valuation of human lives : Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in nineteenth-century America -- The price and value of children: the case of children's insurance in the United States -- From baby farms to Baby M -...
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2011.
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"Over the past three decades, economic socialogy has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's lead...
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Economic lives : how culture shapes the economy / Viviana A. Zelizer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2011.
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N306.3/116
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74Vv32dOeGaZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv32dOeGaZ
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ISBN
0691139369 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691139364 (cloth : alk. paper)
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306.3
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991009587239702626
