The Social Structures of the Economy FICTION A younger generation embodies yet

A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time

is a chilling comic novella about a traveling salesman who agrees to play the role of the defendant in a mock trial among dinner companions—and then pays the ultimate penalty

presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s

The perfect mix of 'sweet and spicy' (Abby Jimenez)

with Leo Strauss's influential introduction

The Social Structures of the Economy FICTION A younger generation embodies yetMuch orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract assumptions cannot