The politics and ethics of the just price : ethnographies of market exchange

• Other Authors: Luetchford, Peter (Editor), Orlando, Giovanni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 39.
• Subjects: Prices > Case studies.; Markets > Case studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787435735; 9781787439597
• ISSN: 0190-1281 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S0190-1281201939
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) ; cm.

Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the politics and ethics of pricing everything through the market dominates public life. At the same time, we know that dilemmas about how to value fairly, but...