false 139706 0 0 238701 0691034591 9780691034591 2 <![CDATA[Pricing the Priceless Child : The Changing Social Value of Children]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173020075m/238701.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173020075s/238701.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238701.Pricing_the_Priceless_Child_The_Changing_Social_Value_of_Children 3.73 11 In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless," from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of changing attitudes toward children, this book dramatically illustrates the limits of economic views of life that ignore the pervasive role of social, cultural, emotional, and moral factors in our marketplace world.

]]> 139706 3.79 28 2 1994 1157374 0691130639 9780691130637 0 <![CDATA[The Purchase of Intimacy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181470447m/1157374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181470447s/1157374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1157374.The_Purchase_of_Intimacy 4.11 9 In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people.

In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11?

Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples.

From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.

]]> 139706 3.79 28 2 2007 259385 0691048215 9780691048215 0 <![CDATA[The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173216025m/259385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173216025s/259385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259385.The_Social_Meaning_of_Money_Pin_Money_Paychecks_Poor_Relief_and_Other_Currencies 3.20 5 A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing social relations to cold, hard cash. Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.

]]> 139706 3.79 28 2 1997 3569008 0691124086 9780691124087 0 <![CDATA[The Purchase of Intimacy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3569008.The_Purchase_of_Intimacy 4.00 3 In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties--especially intimate ties--to other people.

In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11?

Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples.

From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.

]]> 139706 3.79 28 2 2005 5428906 0231045700 9780231045704 0 <![CDATA[Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5428906.Morals_and_Markets_The_Development_of_Life_Insurance_in_the_United_States 0.0 0 139706 3.79 28 2 1979 3635913 0465078915 9780465078912 0 <![CDATA[The Social Meaning of Money]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3635913.The_Social_Meaning_of_Money 0.0 0 139706 3.79 28 2 1994 2962678 0465078923 9780465078929 0 <![CDATA[The Social Meaning of Money]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962678.The_Social_Meaning_of_Money 0.0 0 139706 3.79 28 2 1995