Wealth and Power

by Bell, Duran

• ISBN13: 9780759104907
• ISBN10: 0759104905
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Altamira Pr

Summary

Bell presents for the first time a foundational conception of wealth as a form of social resource, and explains the consequences for our understanding of social relations and social process. He demonstrates the articulation of household resources in relation to wealth, constructs a measure of the social power attributable to the holding of wealth assets, and presents an analytically powerful conception of balanced exchange. By observing the implications of wealth on a cross-cultural and multi-societal basis he shows how we can gain new insights into the implications of capital formation during this period of global accumulation.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
CHAPTER ONE A Time of Global Accumulation	1	(10)
CHAPTER TWO Wealth, Power, and Corporate Groups	11	(34)
CHAPTER THREE Capitalism and the Right to Survive	45	(12)
CHAPTER FOUR Bridewealth and the Articulation of Wealth	57	(14)
CHAPTER FIVE Households in Service to Wealth	71	(18)
CHAPTER SIX On the Nature of Rightful and Imposed Claims	89	(22)
CHAPTER SEVEN Marriage and Legitimacy	111	(20)
CHAPTER EIGHT Rights:The Shared and the Private	131	(18)
CHAPTER NINE Charity	149	(12)
CHAPTER TEN The Logic of Reciprocity	161	(14)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Guanxi and the Law of the Village	175	(28)
Notes	203	(4)
References	207	(12)
Index	219	(4)
Biography of Gyula Derkovits	223	(2)
About the Author	225