wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
ISBN: 9780231183352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Life insurance--the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium--is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural...
Life insurance--the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium--is a bizarre enterprise. How can we mo...
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148,76 zł |
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The Purchase of Intimacy
ISBN: 9780691130637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people. In everyday life, we... In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workp... |
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170,02 zł |
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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
ISBN: 9780691176031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which... A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that i... |
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116,89 zł |
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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
ISBN: 9780691034591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless," from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of... In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "pricel... |
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185,96 zł |
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Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
ISBN: 9780691158105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time.
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relatio... |
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148,76 zł |
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Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works
ISBN: 9780691202891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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185,96 zł |