The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader [Paperback]

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• Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.
  
• Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach.
  
• Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy.
  
• Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge.
  
• Material is organised around different links in the value chain.

Introduction. .

Part I: Production.

1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design (Angela McRobbie).

2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace (Seán Ó’Riain).

3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (Katie Vann and Geoffrey C. Bowker).

4. The Economy of Qualities (Michel Callon, Cécile Méadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa).

Part II: Finance and Money.

5. Inside the Economy of Appearances (Anna Tsing).

6. Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies (Donald MacKenzie).

7. Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship (Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger).

Part III: Regulation.<lãá