Thrift and Its Paradoxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thrift and Its Paradoxes write by Catherine Alexander. This book was released on 2022-04-08. Thrift and Its Paradoxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thrift is a central concern for most people, especially in turbulent economic times. It is both an economic and an ethical logic of frugal living, saving and avoiding waste for long-term kin care. These logics echo the ancient ideal of household self-sufficiency, contrasting with capitalism’s wasteful present-focused growth. But thrift now exceeds domestic matters straying across scales to justify public expenditure cuts. Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.
Paradoxes
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Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics
Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics write by Mark Skousen. This book was released on 1998. Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes 50 paradoxes that challenge or have challenged both economists and others. Among them are the fairness of market wages, the alleged gold absurdity, the Irish potato famine, the paradox of thrift, the perversity of Wall Street, why the best crops are shipped out of state, whether teachers are underpaid, whether studying economics makes people immoral, and whether war is good for the economy. References are provided to each. Assumes no special knowledge of economics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Thrift and Thriving in America
Thrift and Thriving in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thrift and Thriving in America write by Joshua Yates. This book was released on 2011-07-29. Thrift and Thriving in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thrift and Thriving in America is a collection of groundbreaking essays on the significance of thrift throughout American history. It reveals thrift as a dynamic moral ideal and practice that not only provides insight into evolving meanings of material wellbeing, but also into the changing understandings of the good life and the good society more generally.
Affluence and Freedom
Affluence and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affluence and Freedom write by Pierre Charbonnier. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Affluence and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.
