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Expanding the Economic Concept of Exchange

Deception, Self-Deception and Illusions

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Gerschlager

    1. Institute of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and the University of Vienna, Austria

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Caroline Gerschlager
      Pages 1-24

  3. The Conceptual Range of Exchange and Deception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Is (Self-)Deception an Indispensable Quality of Exchange?

      • Caroline Gerschlager
      Pages 27-51

    3. Exchange and Emotions

      • Paul Dumouchel
      Pages 53-65

    4. On Exchange and Deception

      • Ulrich Thielemann
      Pages 67-81

  4. The Economics of Deception: Simulation and Pseudo-Realities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. On Exchange and Deceit

      • Holger Bonus
      Pages 85-99

    3. Economists Encounter Cyborgs

      • Philip Mirowski
      Pages 101-118

  5. Archaic Religious Settings of Exchange: Animal Spirits, Gods and Other “Imaginary Partners”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Go-Between: Reflections on a Mechanism of Ritual Exchange

      • Anne De Sales
      Pages 121-132

    3. Tricks of the Trade or How Siberian Hunters Play the Game of Life-Exchange

      • Roberte N. Hamayon
      Pages 133-147

    4. On Mauss and Myths

      • Martin Treml
      Pages 149-163

  6. Deception in Economic Anthropology: Being Mystified?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Misrepresenting the Potlatch

      • Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
      Pages 167-188

    3. On ‘Reciprocity.’ A Case Study on Insufficient State of Notions of Economic Criticism

      • Jürgen Fahlbusch
      Pages 189-197

  7. Gender, Sacrifice and Veils

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. In-Ex-Change-Able

      • Birge Krondorfer
      Pages 201-211

    3. Violence Deceived: Changing Reciprocities from Vengeance to Gift Exchange

      • Mark Rogin Anspach
      Pages 213-224

    4. The Technologisation of Money

      • Wilhelm Berger
      Pages 225-235
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About this book

Exchange is a pervasive concept in everyday life, affecting phenomena as diverse as interpersonal relationships and market transactions. In addition, economists have used the concept in a highly specific and clearly delineated way. Against this background, Expanding the Economic Concept of Exchange sets out to expand the concept of exchange by crossing the boundaries laid down by economists and by examining the function played by deceptions, self-deceptions and illusions. The main motivation for expanding the concept of exchange was the realization that in the prototypical economic model deception is not taken into account. Hence, economists traditionally regard deception as some sort of irrationality, as a flaw in an otherwise perfectly rational process. Authors represented in this volume take a different approach examining deception as a constituent quality of exchange. This is shown by the contributions drawing on recent developments in economic theory, by those with an anthropological orientation, as well as by a contribution referring specifically to Adam Smith. An interrogation into deception is long overdue in economics. This volume prepares the ground for and makes the first contributions to explicitly acknowledging deceptions, self-deceptions and illusions as fundamental dimensions allowing us as economists to further research and develop the concept of change. A particular and perhaps unexpected focus of this volume lies on anthropology, because economics can clearly benefit from integrating selected results on deception from outside its expanding domain. It is primarily targeted at economists interested in institutional aspects of exchanges and social theory. In addition, the topic will find interested readers from anthropology, cultural studies, science studies, philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and the University of Vienna, Austria

    Caroline Gerschlager

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Expanding the Economic Concept of Exchange

  • Book Subtitle: Deception, Self-Deception and Illusions

  • Editors: Caroline Gerschlager

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0905-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7625-5Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5297-6Published: 24 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0905-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 263

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Sciences, general, Philosophy, general

  • Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking

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