Abstract The bicentenary of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1976 was marked by the
publication of a new complete edition of his works and correspondence, bringing together …

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges
posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly …

Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how
class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become …

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description
come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social …

The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a
sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The …

The phantom-like nature of value—what could be a more compelling topic in the wake of the
bursting of the 1990s economic bubble, when the value of the new economy seemed …

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money—in other words,
participating in the modern financial system—come to seem likeroutine activities of …

We are living in a time when it is frequently assumed that the logic of capital has subsumed
every single aspect of our lives, intervening in the organization of our intimate relations as …

What is the relationship between our conception of humans as producers or creators; as
consumers of taste and pleasure; and as creators of value? Combining cultural history …

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes
trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum …