Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World

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Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism? What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover from the past? The essays in this volume set out to challenge essentialist accounts of the market. Instead they suggest that markets are always embedded in distinctive traditions and practices that shape the ways in which they are conceived and the manner of their working. The essays range widely over European and non-European societies from the eighteenth century to the present, from the great transformation to globalization. Rational peasants, republican economists, popular conservatives, guild theorists, early environmentalists, communitarians, progressives, consumers, Gandhi's descendants and others are all revived. The volume thus recovers alternative ways of thinking about markets, many of which are neglected or marginalized in contemporary debates.

'An important contribution to the literature of the new political economy, this collection of essays speaks directly to the current debate about globalisation … this collection of diverse yet commonly themed essays will be most useful to scholars and graduate students, but its ideas are important and should trickle down.'

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'… an important contribution to debates on the politics of markets in the modern world.'

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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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- By Mark Bevir, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley, Frank Trentmann, Senior Lecturer in Modern History Birkbeck College, University of London
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List of contributors
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1 - Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices and governance
pp 1-24
- By Mark Bevir, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley, Frank Trentmann, Senior Lecturer in Modern History Birkbeck College, University of London
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2 - Improving justice: communities of norms in the Great Transformation
pp 25-45
- By James Livesey, Teaches Modern History Trinity College, Dublin
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3 - The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant
pp 46-69
- By Richard Whatmore, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History University of Sussex
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4 - Tories and markets: Britain 1800–1850
pp 70-89
- By David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor University of East Anglia
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5 - Guild theory and guild organization in France and Germany during the nineteenth century
pp 90-104
- By Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Professor of History Universität Bielefeld
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6 - Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin
pp 105-128
- By Donald Winch, Research Professor Graduate Center for humanities at the University of Sussex
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7 - Tönnies on ‘community’ and ‘civil society’: clarifying some cross-currents in post-Marxian political thought
pp 129-144
- By Jose Harris, Professor of History Oxford
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8 - German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s
pp 145-169
- By Axel R. Schäfer, Teaches US History Keele University
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9 - Civilizing markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States
pp 170-201
- By Patricia MacLachlan, Teaches Comparative Politics University of Texas and Austin, Frank Trentmann, Senior Lecturer in Modern History Birkbeck College, University of London
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10 - The ideologically embedded market: political legitimation and economic reform in India
pp 202-223
- By Rob Jenkins, Professor of Politics Birkbeck College, University of London
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11 - The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets
pp 224-246
- By Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology University of Chicago
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

List of contributors
pp viii-x

1 - Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices and governance
pp 1-24

2 - Improving justice: communities of norms in the Great Transformation
pp 25-45

3 - The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant
pp 46-69

4 - Tories and markets: Britain 1800–1850
pp 70-89

5 - Guild theory and guild organization in France and Germany during the nineteenth century
pp 90-104

6 - Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin
pp 105-128

7 - Tönnies on ‘community’ and ‘civil society’: clarifying some cross-currents in post-Marxian political thought
pp 129-144

8 - German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s
pp 145-169

9 - Civilizing markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States
pp 170-201

10 - The ideologically embedded market: political legitimation and economic reform in India
pp 202-223

11 - The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets
pp 224-246

Index
pp 247-257

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