Viviana A Rotman Zelizer
Biographic Data
| ID | 144933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viviana A Rotman Zelizer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viviana A Rotman |
| FAMILY NAME | Zelizer |
| SIGNATURE | ZELIZER V A R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Morals and Markets
In "Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States," Viviana Zelizer explores the historical transformation of life insurance from a taboo practice associated with gambling and speculation to a widely accepted and morally sanctioned financial product. Zelizer challenges the conventional narrative of market triumphalism by demonstrating how cultural and moral values shaped the development of this market. She argues that…
Economic Lives
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. This book shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, eco…
Economic Lives
The purchase of intimacy
The social meaning of money
A dollar is 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 A. Zelizer shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendsh…
Pricing the priceless child
Morals and Markets
Journal Article Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. By Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xiv + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Roy Lubove Roy Lubove University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 938–939…
Morals and Markets. the Development of Life Insurance in the United States
The complex relations between money, human life, and death form the central themes of Morals and Markets. The process of monetarizing life remains a perplexing phenomenon. With lively detail Zelizer chronicles the fascinating development in the second half of the nineteenth century of the life insurance industry in the United States--one of the most unusual tales in the history of American business. This book portrays the controversial origins of…
Pricing the priceless child
Morals and Markets
In "Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States," Viviana Zelizer explores the historical transformation of life insurance from a taboo practice associated with gambling and speculation to a widely accepted and morally sanctioned financial product. Zelizer challenges the conventional narrative of market triumphalism by demonstrating how cultural and moral values shaped the development of this market. She argues that…
Morals and Markets
Journal Article Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. By Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xiv + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Roy Lubove Roy Lubove University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 938–939…
Morals and Markets. the Development of Life Insurance in the United States
The complex relations between money, human life, and death form the central themes of Morals and Markets. The process of monetarizing life remains a perplexing phenomenon. With lively detail Zelizer chronicles the fascinating development in the second half of the nineteenth century of the life insurance industry in the United States--one of the most unusual tales in the history of American business. This book portrays the controversial origins of…
Pricing the priceless child
Morals and Markets
Journal Article Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. By Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xiv + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Roy Lubove Roy Lubove University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 938–939…
The social meaning of money
A dollar is 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 A. Zelizer shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendsh…
The purchase of intimacy
Economic Lives
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. This book shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and preferences, eco…
Economic Lives
Morals and Markets
In "Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States," Viviana Zelizer explores the historical transformation of life insurance from a taboo practice associated with gambling and speculation to a widely accepted and morally sanctioned financial product. Zelizer challenges the conventional narrative of market triumphalism by demonstrating how cultural and moral values shaped the development of this market. She argues that…
Economics (3 works) · Social values (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Economic aspects (2 works) · Economic aspects (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Social aspects (2 works) · sociological aspects (2 works)