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Frontiers of Capital
. Ed(S): Fisher, Melissa S.; Downey, Greg
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paperback. Ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. Editor(s): Fisher, Melissa S.; Downey, Greg. Num Pages: 392 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of ... Read more
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822337393
SKU
V9780822337393
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About . Ed(S): Fisher, Melissa S.; Downey, Greg
Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Greg Downey is Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University. Greg Downey is Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University.
Reviews for Frontiers of Capital
“Frontiers of Capital is a synthetic state-of-the-art account of anthropology’s contribution to thinking about the current economic moment. The essays are—without exception—brilliant ethnographic excursions into the terrain of what the editors call the ‘New Economy.’ Together they enable an understanding of the post–Cold War, neoliberal, information-saturated, finance-capital-dominated world we inhabit.”—Charles Piot, author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa ... Read more