The Culture of the Market

A collection of thirteen essays examining how ???the market??? has been perceived, represented and experienced differently in different epochs.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; List of contributors; Plates; Introduction: the culture of the market; Part I. Market Regimes Old and New: 1. The ruling class in the market place: nobles and money in early modern France; 2. Territorial gardens: the control of land in seventeenth-century French formal gardens; 3. Money, equality, fraternity: freemasonry and the social order in eighteenth-century Europe; 4. Market culture, reckless passion and the Victorian reconstruction of punishment; Part II. Personality and Authority in the Age of Capital: 5. New cultural heroes in the early national period; 6. Preserving 'the natural equality of rank and influence' liberalism, republicanism and equality of condition in Jacksonian politics; 7. Banking on language: the currency of Alexander Bryan Johnson; Part III. The Lens of 'High' Culture: 8. An entrepreneur in spite of himself: Edgar Dégas and the market; 9. A Yankee Diogenes: Thoreau and the market; 10. Need and honour in Balzac's Père Goriot: reflections on a vision of laissez-faire society; Part IV. Agency and Structure: 11. The reformist dimensions of Talcott Parsons's early social theory; 12. The strange career of The Lonely Crowd: or the antinomies of autonomy; 13. Persons as uncaused causes: John Stuart Mill, The Spirit of Capitalism, and the 'invention' of formalism; Index.

Summary

A collection of thirteen essays which explore how notions of 'the market' have been perceived, represented and experienced differently in different epochs.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, Thomas L Haskell Ed
• Assisted by: Thomas L. Haskell (Editor), III Richard F. Teichgraeber (Editor), Ricahard F. Teichgraeber (Editor), Richard F. Teichgraeber III (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9780521564786
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56478-6
• No. of pages: 556
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 795 g
• Series: Murphy Institute Studies in Po
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries