The Social Structures of the Economy FICTION

The Social Structures of the Economy FICTIONMuch orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract assumptions cannot

merciless-chose her as consort

A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time

about black bodies and black music

The perfect mix of 'sweet and spicy' (Abby Jimenez)

Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools

both she and Will-the Nightweaver who has captured her heart-have been cursed

is a chilling comic novella about a traveling salesman who agrees to play the role of the defendant in a mock trial among dinner companions—and then pays the ultimate penalty

and the United States' conflicted rise to power in the early twentieth century

presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s

business founders

with Leo Strauss's influential introduction

and Bruce Wayne embarking on an extraordinary journey through time