| A Market Out of Place?: Remaking Economic, Social, and Symbolic Boundaries in Post-Communist Lithuania Contributor(s): Hohnen, Pernille (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199267626 ISBN-13: 9780199267620 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: This book focuses on the seamy side of market economy in Lithuania and shows how a "market" only becomes established by people, sacrifices, and contestation. It gives a vivid picture of the hardship of the first new entrepreneurs creating the new market economies by travelling to China, Turkey, Poland, and India to buy merchandise for resale, and shows how their ideas slowly develop into more established routines in a more stable market. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Business & Economics | Commerce |
| Dewey: 381.094 |
| LCCN: 2004041558 |
| Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.38" W x 9.52" (1.16 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book focuses on the seamy side of market economy in Lithuania and shows how a market only becomes established by people, sacrifices, and contestation. It gives a vivid picture of the hardship of the first new entrepreneurs creating the new market economies by travelling to China, Turkey, Poland, and India to buy merchandise for resale, and shows how their ideas slowly develop into more established routines in a more stable market. |