Value as the Importance of Actions
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 20048031 |
|---|---|
| Autores | David Graeber (University of London, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2001 |
| Páginas | 49-89 |
| Data de publicação | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | CHAPTER |
| Periódico | Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editora | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780312299064_3 |
| OpenAlex | W156690646 |
| ISBN | 9780312299064 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 7 |
The theory of value presented in the next essay was developed in the 1980s (largely \nby anthropologists in the University of Chicago) and 90s (largely by myself) so it occurred to \nme, this being a new millennium and all, it might be helpful to the reader to provide something \nof an update. Something to demonstrate how this rather abstract theory can be useful for \nsomething. Since I am writing from America (just barely: I m writing from New York, which is a \nlittle like America, but also a little like the world) shortly after the quite possibly legitimate \nreelection of George W. Bush, this seemed an obvious topic for reflection. How on earth could \nthis have happened? All over the world, and certainly across the American left, people have been \nasking what, exactly, were Bush voters thinking? How could a demonstrable liar and idiot with \nthe worst economic record of any American president since Herbert Hoover win the enthusiastic \nsupport of millions of Americans and most excruciatingly, working class Americans, towards \nwhose economic interests he is so openly hostile? Obviously, this very puzzlement is something \nof an explanation: many on the left clearly have no idea what most Americans are thinking. I \nwould like to demonstrate that value theory, of the rather unconventional variety I m proposing \nhere, might actually be useful here. Therefore, I ll start by setting out the problem in the starkest \nterms as possible. I will begin with an excursus on what I call the political metaphysics of \nstupidity , then pose a political-economic explanation. It is, I think, a pretty good one. Still, I \nhope to show that the very logic of the explanation illuminates the limits of any purely political \neconomic approach and pushes towards something beyond it, the understanding that both \neconomic and political struggles are, always, ultimately, struggles over the nature of value
Economics · Epistemology · Mathematical economics · Positive economics · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Value theory · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Mathematics · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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| Intervalo de citações | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Altamente citado | Não |