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Alex speaks with Stefanie Haeffele about her book Living Better Together, exploring the works of Elinor Ostrom and Viviana Zelizer.

In this episode from 2023, Alex speaks with Stefanie Haeffele about her book Living Better Together, which explores the work of Elinor Ostrom and Viviana Zelizer. Episode Notes: "Living Better Together" by Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr: https://a.co/d/hJNCxw6 Viviana Zelizer's homepage at Princeton: https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/viviana-zelizer Elinor Ostrom's bio and short autobiography on the Nobel website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2009/ostrom/facts/ Nonneutrality of Money in a Social Perspective by Julia Włodarczyk https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274184545_Nonneutrality_of_Money_in_a_Social_Perspective Zelizer's "Circuits of Commerce" https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520241367.003.0009 Ostrom's "Governing The Commons" https://a.co/d/gcUDVWq Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy byViviana A. Zelizer https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691139364/economic-lives "Testing Circuits of Commerce in the Distant Past: Archaeological Understandings of Social Relationships and Economic Lives"by: Crystal A. Dozier…

People in this episode

Host: Alex

Guest: Stefanie Haeffele

Topics covered

• community
• economics
• social relationships
• collaboration
• cultural influence

Keywords

• community
• Elinor Ostrom
• Viviana Zelizer
• economics
• social relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Living Better Together, Nonneutrality of Money in a Social Perspective, Circuits of Commerce, Governing The Commons, Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy, Testing Circuits of Commerce in the Distant Past: Archaeological Understandings of Social Relationships and Economic Lives

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