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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
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Löfgren, Orvar.
  • Willim, Robert.
Description
xi, 145 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Since 1950
  • Technology > Sociological aspects
  • Technological innovations > Social aspects
  • Nineteen nineties
  • Civilization, Modern > 1950-
  • Social change
  • Civilization, Modern
  • New Economy
  • Sozioökonomischer Wandel
  • Destabilisierung
  • Economische ontwikkeling
  • Technische ontwikkeling
  • Culturele aspecten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the mandrake mode / Orvar Löfgren and Robert Willim -- Meditation, magic and spiritual regeneration: spas and the mass production of serenity / Tom O'Dell -- Trick or treatment: brokers in biotech / Lynn Kesson -- Possessed by enterprise: values and value-creation in mandrake management / Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon -- Catwalking and coolhunting: the production of newness / Orvar Löfgren -- Transformers: hip hotels and the cultural economics of aura-production / Maria Christersdotter -- Spectral events: attempts at pattern recognition / Per-Markku Ristilammi -- It's in the mix: configuring industrial cool / Robert Willim -- A land of milk and money: the dairy counter in an economy of added values / Hkan Jonsson -- Flexible, adaptable, employable: ethics for a new labour market / Karin Salomonsson.
ISBN
  • 9781845200909
  • 184520090X
  • 9781845200916
  • 1845200918
LCCN
  • 2004030875
  • 9781845200909
  • 9781845200916
OCLC
  • ocm57352753
  • 57352753
  • SCSB-8802661
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library