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Chapter Title: Table of Contents

Book Title: Economic Lives

Book Subtitle: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Book Author(s): Viviana A. Zelizer
Published by: Princeton University Press. (2011)
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Preface ix
Introduction: The Lives behind Economic Lives 

pa rt o n e: valuati on of h u m an l ive s
Introduction 
 Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death
in Nineteenth-Century America 
 The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children’s Insurance
in the United States 
 From Baby Farms to Baby M 
 The Priceless Child Revisited 

pa rt t wo : th e soci al m eani ng of mo n ey
Introduction 
 The Social Meaning of Money: “Special Monies” 
 Fine Tuning the Zelizer View 
 Payments and Social Ties 
 Money, Power, and Sex 

pa rt t h re e: i nti m ate econom i es

Introduction 
 Do Markets Poison Intimacy? 
 The Purchase of Intimacy 
 Kids and Commerce 
 Intimacy in Economic Organizations 

pa rt f o u r : th e econom y of care
Introduction 
 Caring Everywhere 
 Risky Exchanges 

pa rt f i ve: ci rcu i ts of com m erce

Introduction 
 Circuits within Capitalism 
 Circuits in Economic Life 

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viii contents

pa rt s i x: a ppr ai si ng econom i c live s: critique s

a n d s y n th eses
Introduction 
 Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical
and Empirical Agenda 
 Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology 
 Culture and Consumption 
 Ethics in the Economy 

Published Works of Viviana A. Zelizer on Economic Sociology 

Index 

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