Missing Persons by Mary Douglas
The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. This book finds this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions.
Mary Douglas is retired as a Professor at University College of London. Among her many published works is Risk and Culture, coauthored with Aaron Wildavsky (California, 1982). Steven Ney is a researcher at the Institute for Technology and Society in Vienna and recently coauthored a chapter in the anthology Human Choice and Global Change, due out in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520207523 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520207521 |
| Title | Missing Persons |
| Author | Mary Douglas |
| Series | Wildavsky Forum Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1998-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 238 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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