Markets in Historical Contexts
Markets in Historical Contexts
Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck College, University of London
Presenting a much-needed corrective to the model of the "free market", authoritative contributors make historically-informed, interdisciplinary inquiries into the nature of market involvement in social, cultural and political relations. They examine critical thinkers, social movements and organizations and the ways in which they have influenced market relations from the eighteenth century to the present. The volume recreates those critical traditions and reform movements which sought to negotiate a path between the free market and the Marxist utopia of a society without markets.
- A critique of the centrality of the model of the 'free market' in public and academic life
- Features contributions from leading historians, theorists and social scientists
- Has methodological implications for contemporary debates about globalization and markets
Reviews & endorsements
'An important contribution to the literature of the new political economy, this collection of essays speaks directly to the current debate about globalisation … this collection of diverse yet commonly themed essays will be most useful to scholars and graduate students, but its ideas are important and should trickle down.' Business History
'… an important contribution to debates on the politics of markets in the modern world.' Historical Journal
Product details
March 2004Hardback
9780521833554
268 pages
237 × 164 × 23 mm
0.577kg
4 tables
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1. Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices and governance Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann
- 2. Improving justice: communities of norms in the Great Transformation James Livesey
- 3. The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant Richard Whatmore
- 4. Tories and markets: Britain 1800–1850 David Eastwood
- 5. Guild theory and guild organisation in France and Germany during the nineteenth century Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
- 6. Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin Donald Winch
- 7. Tönnies on 'community' and 'civil society': clarifying some cross-currents in post-Marxian political thought Jose Harris
- 8. German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s Axel R. Schäfer
- 9. Civilising markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States Patricia Maclachlan and Frank Trentmann
- 10. The ideologically embedded market: political legitimation and economic reform in India Rob Jenkins
- 11. The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets Saskia Sassen
- Index.
