Scarcity and Modernity

<p>Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard Bourdieu Girard and Sahlins this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style <i>Scarcity and Modernity </i>will appear to those with interests in social and political thought and cultural criticism. </p>