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Why is there such a proliferation of economic discourses in literary theory, cultural studies, anti-sweatshop debates, popular music, and other areas outside the official discipline of economics? How is the economy represented in different ways by economists and non-economists?In this volume, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and countrie
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION, “What Are Economic Representations and What's at Stake?” GLOBAL ECONOMIES, 1. “Globalization through The Economist’s Lens: Knowledge, Representations, and Power”, 2. “Outsourcing Economics”, REPRESENTATIONAL ECONOMIES, 3. “Economic Representations”, 4.“Culture and Myth in Historical Representations of Appalachia's Economy”,ACADEMIC ECONOMIES, 5. I'm Always Searchin': The Consumption of the Job Market in English, 6. “Economic Sociology: Reflections, Refractions, and Other Re-Visions”, 7.“Economic Representations in Archaeology: Macroscale and Microscale Approaches to Craft Production”, 8. “Archaeological Representations of the Economy”, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIES, 9. “Economic Representations in an American Region: What’s at Stake in Appalachia?”, 10. “Pushing Into a Pipeline or Pushing on a String? Duelling Representations in Development and Educational Theories”, 11. “Economic Representation and Subjectification—Some Cases from China”, CULTURAL ECONOMIES, 12. “The Vernacular Economist’s Guide to Media and Culture”, 13. “Singing Money”, 14. “On Smugglers, Pirates, and Aroma Makers”, EVERYDAY ECONOMIES, 15. “Watching the Market’: Visual Representations of Financial Economy in Advertisements”, 16. “Everyday Economics and the Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky: An Interview with Deborah Webb, ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES, 17. “Globeerizatoin or Beeroregionalism? Beer as an Economic Representation, 18. “Building Community Economies: A Postcapitalist Project of Sustainable Development”
