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Economies and cultures : foundations of economic anthropology.
- Title
- Economies and cultures : foundations of economic anthropology.
- Author
- Wilk, Richard R.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2007], ©2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Cliggett, Lisa, 1965-
- Description
- xi, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-227) and index.
- Contents
- Economic anthropology: an undisciplined discipline -- Controversy and social science -- The formalist-substantivist debate -- Economic anthropology after the Great Debate -- Can there be a conclusion? -- Notes -- Economics and the problem of human nature -- Defining the economy -- Redefining economic anthropology -- Notes -- Self-interest and neoclassical microeconomics -- Adam Smith and the birth of western economics -- The foundations of modern economics -- Neoclassical microeconomics -- Critiques of formal economics -- Summary: Reconciling self-interest and selflessness -- Notes -- Social and political economy -- Social humans -- Power and politicis -- Durkheim and the social organism -- Karl Marx: putting politics into the economy -- Varieties of social and political economy -- Summary: The problems of structure and agency -- Notes -- The moral human: cultural economics -- Morals, ideology, symbols -- The roots of moral economics -- The question of rationality and culture -- Problems with cultural economics -- Cultural economics, round two -- Summary: How much does culture determine? -- Notes -- Gifts and exchange -- Three analyses of potlatching -- But what is a gift? -- Linking Mauss and Marx -- Reciprocity and gifting -- Accumulating value in the gift -- Beyond value -- Mutual recognition and the gift -- Conclusions -- Note -- Conclusions: Complex economic human beings -- The case of the leaking houses -- The problem of explaining things -- Resolving the fundamental issues -- Rethinking human nature -- Conclusions -- Note.
- ISBN
- 9780813343655 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813343658 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006032492
- OCLC
- 72161825
- 72161825
- SCSB-5925141
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries