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The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

a broader investigation of the development of market society that has subsequently influenced a number of fields, including the new economic sociology, international political economy, economic anthropology, and the voluminous literature on globalization. It is a puzzling, contradictory text because Polanyi appears to shift between a portrayal of the market as a

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, Suffolk, U.K., Bloomfield Books. Douglas, C. H. (1979). Social Credit, Sun City, Az, Institute of Economic Democracy. Douglas, M. (1967). “Primitive Rationing.” Themes in Economic Anthropology, R. Firth, Ed. London, Tavistock: 119–45. Douglass, F. (1852). “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

(5): 608–25. Glendinning, S. (2011). Derrida: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, U.K., Oxford University Press. Godelier, M. (1972). “The Object and Method of Economic Anthropology.” Rationality and Irrationality in Economics, M. Godelier, Ed. New York, Monthly Review Press: 243–319. Godelier, M. (1988). The Mental and the Material, London/New

, Taylor & Francis. Gregory, C. A. (2012). “On Money Debt and Morality: Some Reflections on the Contribution of Economic Anthropology.” Social Anthropology 20 (4): 380–96. Grierson, P. (1978). “The Origins of Money.” Research in Economic Anthropology 1: 1–35. Grignon, P. (2006). Money as Debt (film), Moonfire Studio, Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch

. Hann, C. and K. Hart (2009). Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press. Hann, C. and K. Hart (2011). Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique, Cambridge, U.K., Polity Press. Hardt, M. and A. Negri (2001). Empire, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. Hardt, M. and A. Negri

: 637–56. Hart, K. (2001). Money in an Unequal World, New York/London, Texere. Hart, K. (2005a). “Money: One Anthropologist’s View.” A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, J. G. Carrier, Ed. Cheltenham, U.K., Edward Elgar Publishing: 160–75. Hart, K. (2005b). “Notes Towards an Anthropology of Money.” Kritikos. 2 (June). http

Monetary and Capital Markets and Policy Development Review Departments, Washington, DC, International Monetary Fund. Isaac, B. (1993). “Retrospective on the Formalist–Substantivist Debate.” Research in Economic Anthropology, B. Isaac, Ed. Greenwich, CT, JAI Press: 213–33. Issing, O. (2008). The Birth of the Euro, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press. Jameson, F

.lawreform.ie/_fileupload/Reports/r100Debt.pdf. Lazzarato, M. (2011). The Making of Indebted Man, Los Angeles, Semiotext(e). LeClair, E. and H. Schneider, Eds. (1968). Economic Anthropology, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Leigh, W. A. and D. Huff (2007). African Americans and Homeownership: The Subprime Lending Experience, 1995 to 2007, Washington

, et al. (2012). “Shadow Banking.” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report No. 458. Prattis, I. J. (1973). “The State of the Arts in Economic Anthropology: Reflections on a Theme.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Special issue, 10 (3): 193–98. Preda, A. (2009). Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets

.co.uk/2014/01/crypto-patriarchy-problem-of-bitcoins.html. Scott, C. (1966). “The Obsolete ‘Anti-Market’ Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology.” American Anthropologist 68: 323–45. Scott, C. (1969). “The Anti-Market Mentality Re-Examined: A Further Critique of the Substantive Approach to

Economic Anthropology.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 25: 378–406. Scott, C. (1973). Economic Anthropology: Problems in Theory, Method, and Analysis. Hand-book of Social and Cultural Anthropology, J. J. Honigmann, Ed. Chicago, Rand McNally

, 31; on society, 8, 268; on sociology, 168 Dumézil, Georges, 172n Duthuit, George, 172n dystopia, 223, 383; and the market, 281 ecological money, 374–76 economic anthropology, 279, 285 Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), 207 economic growth, 67, 374 economic liberalism, 322, 323–24, 325, 326, 329, 372n, 382; versus socialism, 323–25

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich  · 27 Oct 2015  · 631pp  · 177,227 words

, but in their communities and over their life course (from babies to the elderly). From this vantage point, disciplines like anthropology, and especially subdisciplines like economic anthropology, began to look small and insular. Of course, Boyd and Richerson, building on work by Marc Feldman and Luca Cavalli-Sforza, had already laid down

in economic behavior: Ultimatum game bargaining among the Machiguenga.” American Economic Review 90 (4):973–980. ———. 2002. “Decision-making, cultural transmission and adaptation in economic anthropology.” In Theory in Economic Anthropology, edited by J. Ensminger, 251–295. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. ———. 2004a. “Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation.” Journal of

. C. 2012. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. New York: Vintage Books. Marlowe, F. W. 2004. “What explains Hadza food sharing?” In Research in Economic Anthropology: Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology, edited by M. Alvard, 67–86. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Marlowe, F. 2010. The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania. Berkeley

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 2002  · 901pp  · 234,905 words

potentials correlate with inspection time and intelligence. Intelligence, 18, 15–46. Cashdan, E. 1989. Hunters and gatherers: Economic behavior in bands. In S. Plattner (Ed.), Economic anthropology. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Caspi, A. 2000. The child is father of the man: Personality continuities from childhood to adulthood. Journal of Personality and

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis  · 26 Mar 2019

sound revolutionary, but it is. With the exception of the field of psychology, the great majority of traditional work in the social sciences, including sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science, has involved observational studies, not the controlled experiments that are so common in the natural sciences. In 1969, the sociologist Morris Zelditch

fruition before the Industrial Revolution, and many transcendentalists thought well of the progress induced by steam and coal power. 25. The social sciences—spanning sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, and psychology—are composed of a number of different disciplinary traditions with varied topical, methodological, and philosophical underpinnings. L. McDonald, Early Origins of

Culture and Imperialism

by Edward W. Said  · 29 May 1994  · 549pp  · 170,495 words

The Lords of Human Kind, referred to earlier, gives a remarkable picture of how widespread these views were. As I suggested earlier, disciplines like colonial economics, anthropology, history, and sociology were built out of these dicta, with the result that almost to a man and woman the Europeans who dealt with colonies

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright  · 28 Dec 2010

the Cherubim,” in Philo in Ten Volumes. Harvard University Press (1927). Pinker, Steven (1997) How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton. Plattner, Stuart, ed. (1989) Economic Anthropology. Stanford University Press. Pohl, John M. D. (1994) “Mexican Codices, Maps, and Lienzos as Social Contracts,” in Boone and Mignolo, eds. (1994). Popper, Karl (1957

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

one another—which, in turn, means mapping out what those other sorts of obligation actually are. Doing so, however, poses peculiar challenges. Contemporary social theory—economic anthropology included—offers surprisingly little help in this regard. There’s an enormous anthropological literature on gifts, for instance, starting with the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss

Buddhism: Institutions Analogous to the Jisa.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 3 (4): 443-451. Barth, Frederick. 1969. “Economic Spheres in Darfur.” Themes in Economic Anthropology, ASA Monographs no. 6, pp. 149-174. London: Tavistock. Basham, Arthur Llewellyn. 1948. “Harsa of Kashmir and the Iconoclast Ascetics.” Bulletin of the School of

and Social History of the Orient 3: 241-264. _____. 1977. The Origins of Money. London: Athlone Press. _____. 1978. “The Origins of Money.” In Research in Economic Anthropology Vol. I. Greenwich: Journal of the Anthropological Institute Press. _____. 1979. Dark Age Numismatics. London: Variorium Reprints. Grosz, Katarzyna. 1983. “Bridewealth and Dowry in Nuzi.” In

: The Social History of an Idea in Nineteenth Century France.” International Review of Social History 4: 261-284. Heady, Patrick. 2005. “Barter.” In Handbook of Economic Anthropology (James Carrier, editor), pp. 262-274. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Hébert, Jean-Claude. 1958. “La Parenté à Plaisanterie à Madagascar: Étude d’Ethnologie Juridique.” Bulletin de

, and Andrew Murray Dale. 1968. The Ila Speaking Peoples Of Northern Rhodesia. Two Volumes. London: Kessinger. Smith, Timothy. 1983. “Wampum as Primitive Valuables.” Research in Economic Anthropology 5: 225-246. Snell, F. J. 1919. The Customs of Old England. London: Methuen. Solow, Barbara. 1987. “Capitalism and Slavery in the Exceedingly Long Run

Africa: A Biography of the Continent

by John Reader  · 5 Nov 1998  · 1,072pp  · 297,437 words

Herbert, Eugenia W., 1984, Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture, Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press Herskovits, M.J., 1952 [1940], Economic Anthropology, New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf Hertslet, Sir E., 1909, The Map of Africa by Treaty, 3rd edn, London, HMSO, vol. 2 Hess, R.L

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

by Joseph Henrich  · 7 Sep 2020  · 796pp  · 223,275 words

Progress. New York: Viking. Pirenne, H. (1952). Medieval Cities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Plattner, S. (1989). Economic behavior in markets. In S. Plattner (ed.), Economic Anthropology (pp. 209–221). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., Knopik, V. S., and Neiderhiser, J. M. (2016). Top 10 replicated findings

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind

by Jan Lucassen  · 26 Jul 2021  · 869pp  · 239,167 words

Advanced Research Press, 2008), pp. 273–97. Hodges, Richard & John F. Cherry. ‘Cost-Control and Coinage: An Archaeological Approach to Anglo-Saxon England’, Research in Economic Anthropology, 5 (1983), pp. 131–83. Hoffman, Carl L. ‘Punan Foragers in the Trading Networks of Southeast Asia’, in Carmel Schrire (ed.), Past and Present in

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

by David Lewis-Williams  · 16 Apr 2004

The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

by Robert Wright  · 1 Jan 1994  · 604pp  · 161,455 words

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

by George Gilder  · 30 Apr 1981  · 590pp  · 153,208 words

Europe: A History

by Norman Davies  · 1 Jan 1996

The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

by Richard Wrangham  · 29 Jan 2019  · 473pp  · 130,141 words

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 1997  · 913pp  · 265,787 words

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

by James. Davies  · 15 Nov 2021  · 307pp  · 88,085 words

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

by Monica L. Smith  · 31 Mar 2019  · 304pp  · 85,291 words

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

by Michel Aglietta  · 23 Oct 2018  · 665pp  · 146,542 words

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama  · 25 May 2015  · 494pp  · 116,739 words

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg  · 1 Jun 2011  · 372pp  · 107,587 words

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz  · 2 Feb 2021  · 290pp  · 82,220 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 8 Nov 2016  · 424pp  · 115,035 words

Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War

by Branko Milanovic  · 9 Oct 2023

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

by Nick Romeo  · 15 Jan 2024  · 343pp  · 103,376 words

The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

by Derek S. Hoff  · 30 May 2012

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein  · 30 Apr 2010  · 497pp  · 143,175 words

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson  · 7 Mar 2006  · 364pp  · 101,286 words

The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market

by Paul de Grauwe and Anna Asbury  · 12 Mar 2017