scholarly journals Money as a coordinating device of a commodity economy: old and new, Russian and French readings of Marx

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Nenovsky
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Economy

The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy

2002 ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Situationist International
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Economy

Power and taxes in a multi-commodity economy (updated)

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Aumann ◽  
M. Kurz
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Economy

scholarly journals The Moral Registers of Banqueting in Contemporary China

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-339
Author(s):  
Ellen Oxfeld
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
The Family ◽  
Commodity Economy ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Ritual Economy ◽  
Official Corruption

Chinese feasting encompasses everything from life-cycle celebrations to the indulgences of corrupt officials. Although woven into the commodity economy, banqueting also creates and solidifies social relationships, providing a space where different moral economies converge. This article explores the moral economies that intersect in Chinese banqueting as well as the differing moral registers people use to understand it. Proper form in banqueting is essential to being a cultured person and all banqueting gathers meaning through analogy to the commensal sharing at the heart of the family and ritual economy. Lavish official banqueting may be condemned in popular and state discourse as corrupt; yet officials may claim banqueting is necessary work that creates social connections which help their localities. Banquet inflation among ordinary people is also subject to contradictory moral evaluations. While the recent crackdown on official corruption stigmatises banquet indulgence, it may reinforce ordinary people’s desire to utilise banquets as one of their only tools to influence those with relatively more power.

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