The Worth of Goods
How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach...
The Worth of Goods
How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach...
How We Sold Our Future
For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounti...
Imagined Futures
In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibriu...
Inherited Wealth
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarit...
Constructing Quality
How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product ...
Uncertain Futures
Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty an...
The Monied Metropolis
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social...
Gabions-Book
Combining wire and stones to create a versatile product requires a multifaceted knowledge of wire, wire mesh, corrosion protection, wire grid connection security, stone material, dimensional stability, foundation, installation and load capacity of gabions. This book shows the different types of gabions and their use and is a guide from the selection of gabions to the finished construction, so you can know about and consider the things that combine to create the product you have been wanting. The author was a long year professional in the German gabion market. He invented and developed several gabion products and accompanied their installation and use. The many pictures in the book will show you how many things you can do with gabions and properly selected how beautiful, useful, durable and furthermore maintenance-free gabions can be and how they sustainably beautify our environment. And as an expert as well as a manufacturer of gabion grids you will find specialized additional
Capitalism
A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years 'Magisterial in scope and ambition, Sven Beckert's Capitalism is a dazzling global history of the forces that have shaped - and continue to shape - our world....
Empire of Cotton
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE - A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. 'Masterly ... An astonishing achievement.' --The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
Empire of Cotton
WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE Economist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Knowledgeable and stunning' ...
Capitalism
A landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Empire of Cotton, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework, tracing its history during the past millennium and across the world. An epic achievement, his book takes us into merchant businesses in Aden and car factories in Turin, onto the terrifyingly violent sugar plantations in Barbados, and within the world of women workers in textile factories in today's Cambodia. Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from trading communities across Asia, Africa, and Europe, capitalism's radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. But
Markets
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociolog...
Markets in Fashion
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary appro...
Markets in Fashion
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary appro...
International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals with the multiple and complex relatio...
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines ...
Markets
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociolog...
Etnografiska Metoder
Etnografiska metoder behandlar avancerad forskning med betoning på metoder som intervju och deltagande observation. Ett genomgående tema är att metoder och analys presenteras i relation till teori, förklaring och vetenskapsteoretiska överväganden. Boken tar upp konkreta problem vid förstudie, teorival, analys och kodning, samt arbete i olika kulturer. Den andra upplagan har genomgått en generell uppdatering och kompletterats med nya avsnitt, framför allt om kodning, om skrivprocessen och om vad kvalitativ forskning är. Boken vänder sig till verksamma inom företagsekonomi, socialt arbete, socialantropologi, sociologi och statsvetenskap samt andra som vill fördjupa sina kunskaper inom kvalitativt arbete. Om författarenPatrik Aspers är professor i sociologi, verksam vid sociologiska institutionen och SCORE vid Stockholms universitet, samt vid Textilhögskolan i Borås. Han har publicerat en rad böcker och artiklar om teori och genomfört flera empiriska studier med etnografi ska metoder.
Orderly Fashion
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintai...
Orderly Fashion
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintai...
Uncertain Futures
Uncertain Futures
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, ...
Building Science
With the improved efficiency of heating, cooling and lighting in buildings crucial to the low carbon targets of all current governments, Building Science: Concepts and Applications provides a timely and much-needed addition to the existing literat...
Sovereignty as Symbolic Form
This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the mod...
Anthropology of Islam Reader
The Anthropology of Islam Reader brings together a rich variety of ethnographic work, offering an insight into various forms of Islam as practiced in different geographic, social, and cultural contexts. Topics explored include Ramadan and the Hajj...
Class Politics and the Radical Right
One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties, mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of co...
Becoming International
When and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized ac...
Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'
In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason. Morality ...
Journey into Russia
Ten years ago journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany but who always maintained that 'The true stories are more unbelievable than anything I could invent.' Ever sin...
Companion to the Works of Stefan George
New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the tw...
A Genealogy of Sovereignty
The concept of sovereignty is central to international relations theory and theories of state formation, and provides the foundation of the conventional separation of modern politics into domestic and international spheres. In this book Jens Barte...
Expert .NET Micro Framework
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is a small and efficient .NET runtime environment used to run managed code on devices that are too small and resource constrained for Windows CE and the Compact Framework. Expert .NET Micro Framework will teach y...
Visions of World Community
Throughout the history of Western political thought, the creation of a world community has been seen as a way of overcoming discord between political communities without imposing sovereign authority from above. Jens Bartelson argues that a paradox...
Hans Hillmann
The first in a new series called A5 in which important figures in the history of design will be made accessible to a broader audience. The graphic artist Hans Hillmann is one of Germany's most important poster designers and illustrators who, as a ...
The Critique of the State
What kind of political order would there be in the absence of the state? Jens Bartelson argues that we are currently unable to imagine what might lurk 'beyond', because our basic concepts of political order are conditioned by our experience of sta...
The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right
The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states during the past several decades, particularly in Europe. The radical right's comeback has notably attr...
Class Politics and the Radical Right
One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties, mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of co...