Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this comprehensively updated and revised new edition, traditional approaches as well as the most recent literature are fully addressed and incorporated, with wide reference to theoretical and empirical work. Fine's refreshing and authoritative text includes a critical examination of such themes as: * economics imperialism and globalization * the world of commodities * systems of provision and culture * the consumer society * public...
Consumption has become one of the leading topics across the social sciences and vocational disciplines such as marketing and business studies. In this...
Ben Fine, the author of 'Social Capital versus Social Theory' and a renowned exponent of Marxian political economy and Dimitris Milonakis offer one of the first systematic critiques of cliometrics, new institutional economics and Douglass North's work.
Ben Fine, the author of 'Social Capital versus Social Theory' and a renowned exponent of Marxian political economy and Dimitris Milonakis offer one of...
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism." In other words, the book addresses the shifting boundaries between economics and the other social sciences as seen from the confines of the dismal...
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves ...
