Economics and Morality Anthropological Approaches

Name: Economics and Morality Anthropological Approaches
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ISBN: 9780759112025

ISBN-10: 0759112029

ISBN-13: 9780759112025

Edition: 2009

Authors: Katherine E. Browne, B. Lynne Milgram, Catherine S. Dolan, Christina Garsten, Rhoda H. Halperin

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In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems.

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List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 9/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.22" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score) at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics. She is the author of Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work (2008) and co-editor of Ethical Dilemmas in Management Organizing (2009), Transnational Accountability (2008) and Transparency in a New Global Order (2008).



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Economics and Morality: Introduction




The Stakes of Morality, Reciprocity, and Change



Rethinking Gifts and Commodities: Reciprocity, Recognition, and the Morality of Exchange




The Grift: Getting Burned in the Northern Malagasy Sapphire Trade




Maya Daykeepers: New Spiritual Clients and the Morality of Making Money




Moral Agency inside Market Logic



Extreme Gifting: The Moral Economy of a Community School




"Thiefing a Chance": Moral Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment Factory




Patriotism, Profits, and Waste: The Moral Dimensions of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in Texas




Virtue at the Checkout Till: Salvation Economics in Kenyan Flower Fields




Frontiers of Social Responsibility



Beyond CSR: Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Ethical Conduct in Transnational Organizations




"I Am the Conscience of the Company": Responsibility and the Gift in a Transnational Mining Corporation




Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic Finance and Socially Responsible Investment



Afterword: Moral Economies, Economic Moralities: Consider the Possibilities!



Index


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