Political Economies as Moral Economies: Commodities, Gifts, and Public Goods

The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-40

  Murdock, Graham ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collapse of Soviet Union, Deng's turn to market in China aftermath of Cultural Revolution; Command economies, "black" markets in scarce goods colonial societies, commodities coexisting with barter and gift exchange; Competing moral economies exchange relations, commodities, public goods and gifts; Economics, academic discipline scientific basis for study of economic affairs; Empirical inquiry, fenced off from questions of value cutting links to moral philosophy; Gift exchanges, central focus economic, social and symbolic domains and commodity relations; Legacies and debates, and moral economies commodities, gifts and public goods; Regulation, ensuring public interest not private interests of media owners and advertisers; Smith's promotion by neoliberals militant apostle of free markets; Smith's view, and egotism's stronger motivating force than altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861748595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395402.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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