Economy's Tension Dr José Quero-Garciá

Economy's Tension Dr José Quero-GarciáWhy are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms, termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the

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and fictional writings

technological systems

a ghostly promise of what is always still to come

and the dangers of keeping secrets

written by the scholar Robert McWilliam

such as virtual simulation

particularly the identity of their leader

and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape

The highlands of southern Yemen are explored in this final report of survey and excavations by the Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia Project

Focusing on Britain and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century

for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things