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BL
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892366
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Economy of hope (University of Pennsylvania Press)
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The economy of hope /\ edited by Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, [2017]
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1 online resource (194 pages)
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| ISBN
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0812293509
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: 9780812293500
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0812248694
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9780812248692
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The economy of hope : an introduction / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- A sociological approach to hope in the economy / Richard Swedberg -- Mercantilist-utopian projects in eighteenth-century Sweden / Richard Swedberg -- Hope turned upside down : how the prospects for a Communist utopia were dashed in 1950s Romania / Katherine Verdery -- Hope and society in Japan / Yuji Genda -- Is the law hopeful? / Annelise Riles -- When and how does hope spring eternal in personal and popular economics? Thoughts from West Africa to America / Jane Guyer -- Obama's hope : an economy of belief and substance / Hirokazu Miyazaki.
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| Abstract
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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 variety of disciplinary vantage points. Contributors survey the resilience of hope, and the methodological implications of studying hope, in such experiences as farm collectivization in mid-twentieth-century communist Romania, changing employment relations under Japan's neoliberal reform during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the dynamics of innovation and replication in a West African niche economy, and Barack Obama's 2008 political campaign of hope in the midst of the unfolding global financial crisis. The Economy of Hope shifts the analytic of anthropological and sociological investigations from knowledge to hope, presents case studies on the loss of collective hope, and concludes by offering techniques for replicating hope. In the hands of Miyazaki and Swedberg and their distinguished contributors, hope becomes not only a method of knowledge but also an essential framework for the sociocultural analysis of economic phenomena.
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Hope.
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Hope.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.1
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BD216.E27 2017eb
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Miyazaki, Hirokazu
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Swedberg, Richard
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