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  • Theory in Economic Anthropology

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Values and Valuables

    From the Sacred to the Symbolic

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Nest Before Christmas

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    A grounded plane. A questionable Greyhound bus. A brotherhood on a mission.When the team’s plane gets grounded right before Christmas, the Falcons will stop at nothing to make it home for the holidays, including launching their own Planes, Trains, and Automobiles-style mission across the country to get back to their wives and kids.Meanwhile, their wives are back in Chicago, juggling babies, ... Leer más

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  • The Path to Convertibility and Growth: The Tunisian Experience

    Series Libro 109 - Occasional Papers
    This paper charts Tunisia's transformation from an inward-looking, heavily regulated economy into a predominantly market- and export-oriented one. The paper highlights some of the major challenges facing the country and draws lessons from Tunisia's experience that can be useful for other countries. ... Leer más

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  • Beyond the Invisible Hand

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  • Toward Engaged Anthropology

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development

    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 ... Leer más

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

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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    Edición de Jacob A.C. Remes, Andy Horowitz ...
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  • Debt

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    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 ... Leer más

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    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 ... Leer más

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