Scarcity and Modernity Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Series
Auteur : Xenos Nicholas
Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and Modernity will appear to those with interests in social and political thought and cultural criticism.
Preface; Introduction; 1. Inventing Scarcity 2. The Promise of Abundance 3. Economizing 4. Consuming; Conclusion; Index
Date de parution : 10-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Scarcity and Modernity :
Mots-clés :
Eighteenth Century Social Theorists; Development; Galeries Des Machines; Economics; Scarcity Postulate; Environmental; Emulative Competition; Scarcity; Malthus’s Population Principle; Natural Resources; Mysterious Incalculable Forces; Leads Market Actors; Marginal Utility Economics; Rousseau’s Proposals; Collective Hubris; Emulative Consumption; Social Scarcity; Emulative Desire; Native Australians; Marginal Utility Theory; Scarcity Situations; Common Language; Hobbes’s Readers; Manhattan’s Upper West Side; Modern Baby; Ardent Zeal; Status Arbiter; Contemporary Society; Calculative Logic; Nineteenth Century Authors