Economy's Tension

Economy's TensionWhy are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms, termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the

even some of the most radical environmentalists

drawn from literature and the arts

showing how massive waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further reshaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora

and rewrites our notions of Romantic affect

In the aftermath of the Great War

Buttressing his position with documented accounts of those who hid Jews during the Holocaust

an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama

as well as the dialectics between them

New case conceptualizations address the "new normal" of working in a telehealth environment along with the impact of COVID-19 and racial and social injustice

and interpretation of women's narratives

Trilingual edition - text in English

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