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Exploring Social Sustainability and Economic Practices
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ISBN: 3039285556 3039285548 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Given the three pillars of sustainability, besides the environment, the interplay of social and economic dimensions provides valuable insight into how society is molded and the key components that should be considere. In terms of social sustainability, processes and framework objectives promote the wellbeing that is integral to the balance of people, planet, and profit. Economic practices consider the system of production, resource allocation, and distribution of goods and services with respect to demand and supply between economic agents. As a result, an economic system is a variant of the social system in which it exists. At present, the forefront of social sustainability research partially encompasses the impact of economic practices on people and society, with notable emphasis centered on the urban environment. Specific interdisciplinary analyses within the scope of sustainability, social development, competitiveness, and motivational management, as well as decision making within the urban landscape, are considered. This book contains nine thoroughly refereed contributions that interconnect detailed research into the two pillars reviewed.


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Street Vending in the Neoliberal City
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ISBN: 9781782388357 1782388354 9781782388340 1782388346 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Examining street vending as a global, urban, and informalized practice found both in the Global North and Global South, this volume presents contributions from international scholars working in cities as diverse as Berlin, Dhaka, New York City, Los Angeles, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City. The aim of this global approach is to repudiate the assumption that street vending is usually carried out in the Southern hemisphere and to reveal how it also represents an essential—and constantly growing—economic practice in urban centers of the Global North. Although street vending activities vary due to local specificities, this anthology illustrates how these urban practices can also reveal global ties and developments.


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Economic Lives
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ISBN: 1282821059 9786612821059 1400836255 9781400836253 9781282821057 9780691139364 0691139369 6612821051 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time. Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others. Distilling three decades of research, the book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of production, consumption, and asset transfer. Economic Lives ranges broadly from life insurance marketing, corporate ethics, household budgets, and migrant remittances to caring labor, workplace romance, baby markets, and payments for sex. These examples demonstrate an alternative approach to explaining how we manage economic activity--as well as a different way of understanding why conventional economic theory has proved incapable of predicting or responding to recent economic crises. Providing an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field, Economic Lives promises to be widely read and discussed.

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Economics --- Social values. --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Values --- Sociology --- Social values --- Sociological aspects --- E-books --- Karl Marx. --- United States. --- adoption market. --- adult-run enterprises. --- asset transfer. --- asset transfers. --- baby markets. --- baby selling. --- capitalism. --- carework. --- child insurance market. --- children's labor. --- children. --- circuits. --- commerce. --- commercial markets. --- commodification. --- compensation. --- consumption. --- credit associations. --- cultural meaning. --- cultural resistance. --- cultural understanding. --- culture. --- currency. --- death. --- distribution. --- domestic money. --- earmarking. --- economic activities. --- economic activity. --- economic life. --- economic models. --- economic organizations. --- economic performance. --- economic practices. --- economic processes. --- economic sociology. --- economic transactions. --- economic value. --- economy. --- entitlements. --- ethical codes. --- ethical questions. --- ethics. --- ethnicвacial communities. --- exchange. --- exploitation. --- friendship. --- gifts. --- households. --- immigrant enterprises. --- insurance policies. --- interpersonal relations. --- intimacy. --- intimate labor. --- intimate relations. --- intimate relationships. --- kinship. --- life insurance. --- market money. --- market transactions. --- markets. --- married women. --- migrants. --- monetary payments. --- monetary transactions. --- monetary transfers. --- money. --- neclassical economics. --- neoclassical economics. --- organizational performance. --- paid care. --- payment. --- personal relations. --- power. --- production. --- remittance networks. --- retail. --- risky exchanges. --- sacralization. --- sexual intimacy. --- sexual relationships. --- social arrangements. --- social order. --- social relations. --- social relationships. --- sociology. --- solidarity. --- special monies. --- surrogacy market. --- transactions. --- unpaid care. --- valuation. --- work. --- Economics - Sociological aspects --- Social Values --- Social values - Economic aspects --- Culture - Economic aspects

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