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Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Rational Principles -- 1.2 Modern Capitalism -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: Economics as a Moral Science -- 2.1 Chapter Overview -- 2.2 Moral Dimension of Economics -- 2.3 Natural and Moral Sciences -- 2.4 Human Dimension of Economics -- References -- Economic and Moral Considerations -- Econometrics and Probability -- Economic History -- 3: Cooperation and Facilitation -- 3.1 Chapter Overview -- 3.2 Self-Interest and Cooperation -- 3.3 The Theory of Games

This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at "Lamb Buddha", a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the internal structure of "symbolic boundaries" drawn and managed in judgements, positioning statements, and so forth, attempting to regress the modalities by which these migrants assert themselves, thus showing how individuality arises from a discursive environment structured by relation to similar peers and distinctly different others. (JCCA/GIGA)

New moral economies of the peasant : rethinking Scott in 21st century Myanmar -- States of being : a brief background to contemporary Myanmar -- Widening circles : rural transformation in contemporary Myanmar -- Precarity and the post-peasant experience -- Emergent associations: the assemblage of precarity -- Performing parahita : ecologies of redistribution -- Buddhism, parahita and the Other : the boundaries of emergent welfare -- The moral economy of welfare : post-peasant politics and citizenship.

This essay analyzes the aesthetics of capitalist economics at the threshold of the transition from fordist to postfordist modes of production. The essay organizes this analysis around a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest . At stake is the relation between aesthetic productions which engage the economic base and thematize this engagement. In making this claim, the notion of capital's "axiomatic"--a concept by which Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari designate the relative autonomy of the economic base--is employed to examine the way that, from as early as the 1950s, U. S. capitalism's prodigious industries of entertainment and popular culture began to change to ungrounded, flexible, representational economies. An instance of this shift is the emerging pre-eminence of advertising, which the essay finds signaled in the "value" attributed to Cary Grant's Roger O. Thornhill in the farcical spy plot. This value is referred to as "advertising agency," and signals the collapse of such discrete spheres as the economy and state, as well as of production and consumption. Because of its historical position and its content, North by Northwest is a remarkable text for investigating the transformation of twentieth-century economic modes to a dereferentialized form which we continue to inhabit.

This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at "Lamb Buddha", a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the internal structure of "symbolic boundaries" drawn and managed in judgements, positioning statements, and so forth, attempting to regress the modalities by which these migrants assert themselves, thus showing how individuality arises from a discursive environment structured by relation to similar peers and distinctly different others. Adapted from the source document.