The culture of the market : historical essays
"The essays in this volume provide various perspectives on the meanings that different individuals and social groups have attached to their experience of the market. Based on a wide range of literary, artistic, philosophical, and other historical sources, they explore how the norms and practices that market societies foster have been shifting and conflict-ridden. In speaking of the "culture of the market," the authors do not assume that culture is simply a reflection of autonomous economic forces, nor do they suppose that the market is always associated with the same cultural forms, independent of time, place, tradition, and human volition. Yet to speak of the cultural implications of the market is to assume that markets, precisely because they are aspects of culture, have cultural concomitants, and that careful observers are capable of identifying at least some of them. Just what those concomitants are, whether they are best understood as preconditions of market behavior or as results of it, and just how necessary or contingent their connection to market activity may be, are open questions on which the contributors to this volume shed new light."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1996
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], ©1996
Kongreß New Orleans (La.) 1990
xi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521564786, 9780521444682, 0521564786, 0521444683
35193447
Introduction : the culture of the market / Thomas L. Haskell and Richard F. Teichgraeber III
The ruling class in the marketplace : nobles and money in early modern France / Jonathan Dewald
Territorial gardens : the control of land in seventeenth-century French formal gardens / Chandra Mukerji
Money, equality, fraternity : freemasonry and the social order in eighteenth-century Europe / Margaret C. Jacob
Market culture, reckless passion, and the Victorian reconstruction of punishment / Martin J. Wiener
New cultural heroes in the early national period / Joyce Appleby
Preserving "the natural equality of rank and influence" : liberalism, republicanism, and equality of condition in Jacksonian politics / Richard B. Latner
Banking on language : the currency of Alexander Bryan Johnson / Jean-Christophe Agnew
An entrepreneur in spite of himself : Edgar Degas and the market / Marilyn R. Brown. "A Yankee Diogenes" : Thoreau and the market / Richard F. Teichgraeber III
Need and honor in Balzac's Père Goriot : reflections on a vision of laissez-faire society / William M. Reddy
The reformist dimension of Talcott Parson's early social theory / Howard Brick
The strange career of The lonely crowd : or, the antinomies of autonomy / Wilfred M. McClay
Persons as uncaused causes : John Stuart Mill, the spirit of capitalism, and the "invention" of formalism / Thomas L. Haskell