Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the
global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and …

Welcome to the second edition of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT). This book invites you to
a fascinating world of research and reflection on the “what?”“when?”“where?” and “how?” of …

Recent writing in economic and business history is reexamining major transformations in
world history—industrialization, capitalism, the global economy. This new literature avoids …

This article extends (but goes beyond) Zelier's original concept of relational earmarking,
where individuals engaged in dynamic forms of relational work categorize their spending …

By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary
affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and …

Challenging reductionistic approaches to intellectuals that emphasize the so-called social
origins of their ideas—the sociology OF culture approach—this essay proposes a cultural …

Shortly after arriving in Ireland from the United States, the central protagonist of Anne
Haverty's novel The Free and Easy (2006), Tom Blessman, explores the cityscape of Dublin …

Deserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of
memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of …

Employing a cultural sociological approach, this article asks how individuals from two
postsocialist societies articulate principles of justice by providing narrative accounts of other …

Political debates over knowledge claims often become emotionally charged, with two sides
not only disputing what is true but seeing those on the other side as deluded or worse. By …