| Tekijä: | Slater, D. |
| Otsikko: | From calculation to alienation: disentangling economic abstractions |
| Lehti: | Economy and Society
2002 : MAY, VOL. 31:2, p. 234-249 |
| Asiasana: | MARKETS ADVERTISING MARKETING PROPERTY CHANGE |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This article uses a debate between Michel Gallon and Daniel Miller to explore tensions within economic sociology and anthropology. The tension is between characterizations of markets and economic rationality that seem to dissolve them into a generalized notion of culture and those which seem to abstract them as specific social forms. The paper argues that markets arc best defined in terms of a form of transaction rather than a specific mode of calculation: market transactions involve the alienation of goods in the form of property. Such transactions require the kinds of socio-technical apparatuses that Gallon describes, in order to establish both alienability and its limits; on the other hand, and drawing on Gallon's own concepts of framing and overflowing. |
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