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  • Values and Valuables

    From the Sacred to the Symbolic

    by Maurice Godelier, James A. Egan, Françoise Dussart, Colin Danby, Georgia L. Fox, Mahir Saul, Beth E. Notar, Lynne Milgram, Kathleen Pickering, David Mushinski, Eric J. Arnould, Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Linda L. Price, Jim Weil, Brian Moeran, Melanie Rock ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Theory in Economic Anthropology

    by Edwins Laban Gwako, James M. Acheson, Timothy Earle, Robert C. Hunt, Duran Bell, E. Paul Durrenberger, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Elena Obukhova, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Richard Wilk, Joseph Henrich, Deborah Winslow ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Invisible Hand

    Groundwork for a New Economics

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of context, contorted, and used as the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Toward Engaged Anthropology

    Edited by Carl A. Maida, Sam Beck ...
    By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development

    by Jean-Philippe Platteau ...
    In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex abrubto, but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop is not only suitable practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral environment without which ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

    by Donald C. Wood ...
    Series Book 32 - Research in Economic Anthropology
    Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Critical Disaster Studies

    Edited by Jacob A.C. Remes, Andy Horowitz ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
    This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions—and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Debt

    Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

    Edited by Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future.From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide ... Read more

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  • Development as Freedom

    by Amartya Sen ...
    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cooperation in Economy and Society

    by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Concepts of Capital

    The Commodification of Social Life

    Edited by Jacek Tittenbrun ...
    Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline‘specifically the concept of "capital" has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new concepts often ... Read more

    $65.99 USD