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Understanding the Culture of Markets

By: Virgil Henry Storr

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Understanding the Culture of Markets

By: Virgil Henry Storr

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson's and Sidney Poitier's star vehicles to Lee Daniels's directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

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0415777461

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Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

By: Virgil Henry Storr,Ginny Seung Choi

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Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

By: Virgil Henry Storr,Ginny Seung Choi

The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. As we increasingly engage in market activity, the more likely we are to become selfish, corrupt, rapacious and debased. Even Adam Smith, who famously celebrated markets, believed that there were moral costs associated with life in market societies. This book explores whether or not engaging in market activities is morally corrupting. Storr and Choi demonstrate that people in market societies are wealthier, healthier, happier and better connected than those in societies where markets are more restricted. More provocatively, they explain that successful markets require and produce virtuous participants. Markets serve as moral spaces that both rely on and reward their participants for being virtuous. Rather than harming individuals morally, the market is an arena where individuals are encouraged to be their best moral selves. Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? invites us to reassess the claim that markets corrupt our morals.

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3030184161

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Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates

Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas

By: Virgil Henry Storr

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Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates

Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas

By: Virgil Henry Storr

Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates is an interdisciplinary account of economic life in the Bahamas. The Bahamas' economic story is an interesting tale, full of vibrant color - a story of short-lived booms followed by protracted busts, where discussions of economic success force us to mention fanciful figures such as the pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack, and where accounts of economic woe, such as the collapse of the cotton market, are punctuated by descriptions of the clamor of Sunday markets or the unique practice of self-hire. Since the almost simultaneous settling of the Bahamas by pirates and Puritan farmers in the 17th century, two ideal typical entrepreneurs have dominated the region's economic life: the enterprising slave (encouraging Bahamian businessmen to work hard, to be creative and to be productive), and the master pirate, (demonstrating how success is more easily attained through cunning and deception). In addition to Caribbean Studies scholars, this book will appeal to students of culture interested in economic development, and economists interested in how culture impacts development efforts.

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Peter Lang

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0820470759

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9780820470757

Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

By: Solomon M. Stein,Virgil Henry Storr

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Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

By: Solomon M. Stein,Virgil Henry Storr

Ludwig Lachmann is a central but underappreciated figure within the Austrian school of economics. Although his understanding of institutions, his appreciation of the heterogeneity of capital, his emphasis on subjectivity, and his focus on the dynamism and uncertainty of the real world have become dominant positions amongst Austrian economists, he is still viewed as something of an outsider. As such, the contributions of Lachmann's economics are arguably misunderstood. This Element attempts to tease out and discuss the critical contributions of Lachmann's economics. Arguably, one way in which to understand Lachmann's economics is by seeing it as unified in considering, in various ways, a single conceptual 'problem' – the apparent tension between the dynamic nature of social reality and the intelligible nature of the social world. Approaching Lachmann with this theme in mind allows us to put things together more coherently than other exegetical strategies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009099558

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Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

By: Virgil Storr,Arielle John

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Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

By: Virgil Storr,Arielle John

Increasingly, economists realize that a deeper understanding of culture can improve their insights into the most important questions in economics. The Austrian school of political economy, which has always taken economics to be a science of meaning, and therefore, a science of culture, offers a unique approach to the study of culture in economic life. We consider three important differences between these Austrian and non-Austrian approaches: the Austrian focus on culture as meaning rather than culture as norms, beliefs, or attitudes; the Austrian emphasis on culture as an interpretative lens rather than as a tool or form of capital; and the Austrian insistence that cultural analysis be a qualitative exercise rather than a quantitative one. We also examine Geertz's description of culture, Gadamer's approach to hermeneutics, and Weber's interpretative sociology, demonstrating their connections to the Austrian approach and offering examples of what Austrian cultural economics can look like.

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1108786502

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Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

By: Virgil Henry Storr,Stefanie Haeffele-Balch,Laura E. Grube

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Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

By: Virgil Henry Storr,Stefanie Haeffele-Balch,Laura E. Grube

Rebounding after disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods can be daunting. Communities must have residents who can not only gain access to the resources that they need to rebuild but who can also overcome the collective action problem that characterizes post-disaster relief efforts. Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster argues that entrepreneurs, conceived broadly as individuals who recognize and act on opportunities to promote social change, fill this critical role. Using examples of recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York, the authors demonstrate how entrepreneurs promote community recovery by providing necessary goods and services, restoring and replacing disrupted social networks, and signaling that community rebound is likely and, in fact, underway. They argue that creating space for entrepreneurs to act after disasters is essential for promoting recovery and fostering resilient communities.

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1137314893

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Understanding the Culture of Markets

By: Virgil Storr

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Understanding the Culture of Markets

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How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which entrepreneurs can draw resources to aid them in their efforts? Or, is being immersed in a culture like wearing a pair of blinders? Or, is culture like wearing a pair of glasses with tinted lenses? Understanding the Culture of Markets explores how culture shapes economic activity and describes how social scientists (especially economists) should incorporate considerations of culture into their analysis. Although most social scientists recognize that culture shapes economic behavior and outcomes, the majority of economists are not very interested in culture. Understanding the Culture of Markets begins with a discussion of the reasons why economists are reluctant to incorporate culture into economic analysis. It then goes on to describe how culture shapes economic life, and critiques those few efforts by economists to discuss the relationship between culture and markets. Finally, building on the work of Max Weber, it outlines and defends an approach to understanding the culture of markets. In order to understand real world markets, economists must pay attention to how culture shapes economic activity. If culture does indeed color economic life, economists cannot really avoid culture. Instead, the choice that they face is not whether or not to incorporate culture into their analysis but whether to employ culture implicitly or explicitly. Ignoring culture may be possible but avoiding culture is impossible. Understanding the Culture of Markets will appeal to economists interested in how culture impacts economic life, in addition to economic anthropologists and economic sociologists. It should be useful in graduate and undergraduate courses in all of those fields.

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Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

By: Virgil Henry Storr,Stefanie Haeffele-Balch,Laura E. Grube

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Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

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Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

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Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

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Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

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Understanding the Culture of Markets

Understanding the Culture of Markets

Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates

Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates

Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Understanding the Culture of Markets

Understanding the Culture of Markets

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

Cultural Considerations within Austrian Economics

Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

Understanding Ludwig Lachmann's Economics

Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?

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