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Magic, culture and the new economy

Title
Magic, culture and the new economy / edited by Orvar Löfgren and Robert Willim.
Publication
New York, NY : Berg, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Löfgren, Orvar.
  • Willim, Robert.
Description
xi, 145 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Technology > Sociological aspects
  • Technological innovations > Social aspects
  • Nineteen nineties
  • Civilization, Modern > 1950-
  • Social change
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : the Mandrake mode / Orvar Lofgren and Robert Willim -- 2. Meditation, magic and spiritual regeneration : spas and the mass production of serenity / Tom O'Dell -- 3. Trick or treatment : brokers in biotech / Lynn Akesson -- 4. Possessed by enterprise : values and value-creation in Mandrake management / Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon -- 5. Catwalking and coolhunting : the production of newness / Orvar Lofgren -- 6. Transformers : hip hotels and the cultural economics of aura-production / Maria Christersdotter -- 7. Spectral events : attempts at pattern recognition / Per-Markku Ristilammi -- 8. It's in the mix : configuring industrial cool / Robert Willim -- 9. A land of milk and money : the dairy counter in an economy of added values / Hakan Jonsson -- 10. Flexible, adaptable, employable : ethics for a new labour market / Karin Salomonsson -- Making sense : an afterword / Nigel Thrift.
ISBN
  • 1845200918 (pbk.)
  • 184520090X (cloth)
LCCN
2004030875
OCLC
  • 506202234
  • ocn506202234
  • SCSB-5185193
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Columbia University Libraries