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Rather than attempting to explain and predict how 'the Market'
functions - a futile endeavor - this book focuses upon the rich
teachings that the market offers us for dealing with ambiguities
and unexpected and contradictory happenings. These teachings are
not intended to master the market, but to sensitize us to the
various types of uncertainty that the market and life in general
present. Drawing upon years of 'participant-observation' research
the book explores the ways people have traditionally tried to 'make
sense' out of the inconsistencies and general 'fickleness' of the
market. The various market narratives generated by these efforts
normally function only to deny the inconsistencies confronted not
resolve them. Various market routines are similarly explored and
shown only to insulate participants from these market
inconsistencies and related unexpected happenings. While both
coping practices commonly serve to calm us by denying and
insulating us from these uncertainties, they seldom if ever
actually resolve them. Fortunately, the market suggests another,
less acknowledged coping practice, namely 'acting sensibly.' In
this shift from 'knowing' to 'doing,' the book explores practices
employed in wrestling with the underlying causal forces that
generate the bulk of unexpected happenings. This is followed by a
closer look at some of the new teachings of the present-day,
modern, global market with its numerous new trading instruments,
algorithmic trading programs, high frequency trading, and Big Data.
This new market is shown to be a hybrid of making sense and acting
sensibly as it employs both narratives/accounts and concrete
trading transactions. The final chapter uses the market to suggest
how we might best learn to cope with these newer types of
uncertainties rather than futilely trying to master them. While all
of these teachings are presented primarily in the context of the
market, they apply equally to a wide range of other social sectors,
most of which have themselves become shaped in various degrees by
today's market.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have
scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing
constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike.
Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour
movement’s engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why
labour’s long-standing distrust of the legal system has given way
to a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy. This book’s
in-depth examination of constitutional labour rights will have
critical implications for labour movements as well as activists in
other fields.
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have
scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing
constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike.
Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour
movement’s engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why
labour’s long-standing distrust of the legal system has given way
to a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy. This book’s
in-depth examination of constitutional labour rights will have
critical implications for labour movements as well as activists in
other fields.
Over the past thirty-five years, Canada's provinces and territories
have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning
mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political
persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and
government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of
social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the
first province-by-province analysis of politics and political
economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine
the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial
level. Featuring chapters written by experts in the politics of
each province and territory, Transforming Provincial Politics
examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each
jurisdiction. A comprehensive and accessible analysis of the issues
involved, this collection will be welcomed by scholars,
instructors, and anyone interested in the state of provincial
politics today.
"From fish to fine art, this book covers the auction business in
broad scope and fascinating detail. Must reading for everyone
interested in the workings of the marketplace."--William J. Doyle,
William Doyle Galleries
"Smith not only turns up many aspects of auctioneering which the
ordinary person is likely to know little about, but also shows that
auctions provide insights into many other more 'orthodox' forms of
market transactions. "--Anthony Giddens, Cambridge University
"An informed and insightful analysis of the dynamics of the
auction market; will be of immense interest to the interested
amateur and seasoned professional alike."--Wendell Garrett, Editor,
"Antiques Magazine
""Auctions is a masterpiece of institutional analysis. The
combination of thick description and lucid analysis in this book is
superb. Erving Goffman would have liked it."--Lewis A. Coser, SUNY
at Stony Brook
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