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Business of the heart
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ISBN: 0520924320 1597345172 9780520924321 1417523581 9781417523580 9780520221963 0520221966 9781597345170 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The ""Businessmen's Revival"" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850's, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance.


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The sounds of capitalism
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ISBN: 1280994517 9786613766120 0226791149 9780226791142 9781280994517 9780226791159 0226791157 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press

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From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred. Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like The Clic" Club Eskimos to the rise of the jingle, the postwar upsurge in consumerism, and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. The Sounds of Capitalism is the first book to tell truly the history of music used in advertising in the United States and is an original contribution to this little-studied part of our cultural history.

Reluctant capitalists
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ISBN: 0226525902 9786611965969 1281965960 0226525929 9780226525921 9780226525907 9781281965967 6611965963 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate. What drives that debate? And why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit? In Reluctant Capitalists, Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began one hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960's with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of "superstores" in the 1990's. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should somehow be "above" market forces and instead embrace more noble priorities. Miller uses interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers have such fierce loyalty to certain bookstores and why they identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that any type of consumer behavior is inevitably political, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.


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Money talks
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ISBN: 1400885264 9781400885268 9780691168685 0691168687 0691202893 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we create, mark, and use money. This collection brings together a stellar group of international experts from multiple disciplines-sociology, economics, history, law, anthropology, political science, and philosophy-to propose fresh explanations for money's origins, uses, effects, and future.Money Talks explores five key questions: How do social relationships, emotions, and morals shape how people account for and use their money? How do corporations infuse social meaning into their financing and investment practices? What are the historical, political, and social foundations of currencies? When does money become contested, and are there things money shouldn't buy? What is the impact of the new twenty-first-century currencies on our social relations?At a time of growing concern over financial inequality, Money Talks overturns conventional views about money by revealing its profound social potential.

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Money --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Exchange --- Finance --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Economics --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Sociological aspects --- E-books --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Money. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Sociological aspects. --- Australia. --- Bitcoin. --- Bretton Woods. --- China. --- Geoffrey Ingham. --- Indian migrants. --- Russia. --- US Financial Diaries. --- Viviana Zelizer. --- alternative currency. --- asset valuation. --- business money. --- capitalism. --- capitalization. --- charitable giving. --- charity contributions. --- commercial exchanges. --- commercial surrogates. --- complementary currency. --- constitutional approach. --- corporations. --- credit cards. --- credit. --- currency. --- domestic economy. --- donations. --- double-entry bookkeeping. --- earmarking income. --- earmarks. --- economic sociology. --- economic theory. --- egg donor. --- emotion. --- emotional labor. --- emotions. --- finance. --- financial inequality. --- fungibility. --- fungible money. --- gender difference. --- generalized capitalization. --- immateriality. --- industrial money. --- internal design. --- international gold standard. --- international monetary system. --- investment. --- mental accounting. --- migrant remittances. --- mirage. --- modern currency. --- monetary analysis. --- monetary differentiation. --- monetary forms. --- monetary practices. --- monetary valuation. --- money flow. --- money. --- moral judgments. --- morals. --- nationalism. --- nonfungibility. --- organizational budgeting. --- paid donations. --- plastic money. --- public authority. --- purchasing power. --- relational accounting systems. --- sociability. --- social impact. --- social life. --- social meaning. --- social relationships. --- sperm donor. --- transnational money. --- win-lose exchanges. --- world monetary union.

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