Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521833558 ISBN 13: 9780521833554

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume presents a much-needed corrective to the picture of an essentialist market. Leading academics offer historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the embeddedness of markets in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organisations and the ways in which these have understood, managed and tried to reform market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume aims to retrieve 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.

About the Author:

MARK BEVIR is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521833558
• ISBN 13: 9780521833554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Bevir Mark, Trentmann Frank