TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pellegrin-Rescia,Marie L.
AU  - Levi,Yair
TI  - The social as metaphor and the case of cooperatives: a critique of economic individualism 
SN  - 1840144890 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Critical discourse analysis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought -- The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic register -- The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the'social' discourse -- Interdependence and places of wandering -- Symbolic delimitation vs imaginary bonds -- Anthropological debt vs imaginary work places -- Readiness to lose vs imaginary places of production -- Conclusion -- Images, myths and stereotypes -- Origins and constituent elements -- Tensions and inconsistencies -- Interpreting the socio-economic duality -- The paradoxes of cooperatives -- Case studies -- What have we learned from cooperatives? -- Summary and conclusions -- Thinking'nestedness' as a system of constituent rules -- Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic : the case of South Africa -- Thinking the virtual more real than reality : the Citta Aperta, Sicily -- Conclusions
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005011783.html
ER  -