{"product_id":"economic-persuasions-9781845454364","title":"Economic Persuasions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Gudeman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the \"transition\"-the deepening problems of \"development,\" persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance-the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science. How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life? In this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it. Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47609998049431,"sku":"9781845454364","price":9372.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845454364.webp?v=1775061062","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/economic-persuasions-9781845454364","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}