Introduction : The lives behind economic lives
Part I. Valuation of human lives : Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in nineteenth-century America
The price and value of children: the case of children's insurance in the United States
From baby farms to Baby M
The priceless child revisited
Part II. The social meaning of money : The social meaning of money: "special monies"
Fine tuning the Zelizer view
Payments and social ties
Money, power, and sex
Part III. Intimate economies : Do markets poison intimacy?
The purchase of intimacy
Kids and commerce
Intimacy in economic organizations
Part IV. The economy of care : Caring everywhere
Risky exchanges
Part V. Circuits of commerce : Circuits within capitalism
Circuits in economic life
Part VI. Appraising economic lives: critiques and syntheses : Beyond the polemics on the market: establishing a theoretical and empirical agenda
Pasts and futures of the economic sociology
Culture and consumption
Ethics in the economy.