Technological Economy

by Slater; Don

• ISBN13: 9780415336055
• ISBN10: 0415336058
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this major new collection, leading experts in the field of economic sociology combine to provide a critical overview of the latest approaches to the study of economics in the social sciences. Traditionally social scientists have taken one of two approaches towards the economy, either emphasizing the rationality of economic actors and the objective reality of market forces or alternatively rejecting these very notions as abstractions which do violence to the embeddedness of economic relations in social and cultural life. In contrast, The Technological Economy argues for a new understanding of the relationship between the economy and culture. In developing its critical analysis of the new economic sociology, this book is exceptional in adopting cultural approaches to the economy, whilst taking the role of economics in the formation of markets seriously.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(27)
Andrew Barry
Don Slater
The economy of qualities	28	(23)
Michel Callon
Cecile Meadel
Vololona Rabeharisoa
From calculation to alienation: disentangling economic abstractions	51	(15)
Don Slater
Externalities in comparative guise	66	(18)
Marilyn Strathern
The anti-political economy	84	(17)
Andrew Barry
Technology, politics and the market: an interview with Michel Callon	101	(21)
Andrew Barry
Don Slater
From pipes to scopes: the flow architecture of financial markets	122	(20)
Karin Knorr-Cetina
Cultural political economy, the knowledge-based economy, and the state	142	(23)
Bob Jessop
Performing finance: the industry, the media and its image	165	(18)
Gordon L. Clark
Nigel Thrift
Adam Tickell
The objectivity of the brand: marketing, law and sociology	183	(18)
Celia Lury
Index	201