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...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Introduction toward an anthropology of the just price: history, ethnography, and critique
• Market, morality and (just) price: the case of the recycling economy in Turkey
• When the big ones abandon the marketplace: morals and politics of price in equatorial guinea
• Pecunia non olet but does rose money smell? On rose oil prices and moral economy in Isparta, Turkey
• What's in a just price? Challenging values at an organic cooperative in southern Spain
• Market relations as social relations: prices and the moral economy of corn and bean trading in rural Nicaragua
• Tuscan values
• Just compensation? The price of death and injury after the Rana Plaza Garment Factory collapse
• Practicing the just price: fair trade and the limits of ethical consumption in the global north
• Afterword
• Index.