The Economy of Hope /

The Economy of Hope / / ed. by Hirokazu Miyazaki, Richard Swedberg.

Hope is an integral part of social life. Yet, hope has not been studied systematically in the social sciences. Editors Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg have collected essays that investigate hope in a broad range of socioeconomic situations and phenomena across time and space and from a variet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Genda, Yuji,
Guyer, Jane I.,
Miyazaki, Hirokazu,
Riles, Annelise,
Swedberg, Richard,
Verdery, Katherine,
HerausgeberIn:
Miyazaki, Hirokazu,
Swedberg, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 5 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Economy of Hope: An Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Sociological Approach to Hope in the Economy
  • Chapter 2. Mercantilist-Utopian Projects in Eighteenth- Century Sweden
  • Chapter 3. Hope Turned Upside Down: How the Prospects for a Communist Utopia Were Dashed in 1950s Romania
  • Chapter 4. Hope and Society in Japan
  • Chapter 5. Is the Law Hopeful?
  • Chapter 6. When and How Does Hope Spring Eternal in Personal and Popular Economics? Thoughts from West Africa to America
  • Chapter 7. Obama’s Hope: An Economy of Belief and Substance
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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