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List of Illustrations and Figures | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline | |
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Controversy and Social Science | |
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The Formalist-Substantivist Debate | |
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Economic Anthropology After the Great Debate | |
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Can There Be a Conclusion? | |
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Notes | |
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Economics and the Problem of Human Nature | |
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Defining the Economy | |
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Redefining Economic Anthropology | |
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Notes | |
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Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics | |
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Adam Smith and the Birth of Western Economics | |
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The Foundations of Modern Economics | |
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Neoclassical Microeconomics | |
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Critiques of Formal Economics | |
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Summary: Reconciling Self-Interest and Selflessness | |
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Notes | |
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Social and Political Economy | |
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Social Humans | |
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Power and Politics | |
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Durkheim and the Social Organism | |
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Karl Marx: Putting Politics into the Economy | |
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Varieties of Social and Political Economy | |
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Summary: The Problems of Structure and Agency | |
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Notes | |
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The Moral Human: Cultural Economics | |
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Morals, Ideology, Symbols | |
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The Roots of Moral Economics | |
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The Question of Rationality and Culture | |
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Problems with Cultural Economics | |
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Cultural Economics, Round Two | |
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Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? | |
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Notes | |
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Gifts and Exchange | |
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Three Analyses of Potlatching | |
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But What Is a Gift? | |
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Linking Mauss and Marx | |
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Reciprocity and Gifting | |
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Accumulating Value in the Gift | |
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Beyond Value | |
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Mutual Recognition and the Gift | |
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Conclusions | |
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Note | |
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]Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings | |
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The Case of the Leaking Houses | |
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The Problem of Explaining Things | |
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Resolving the Fundamental Issues | |
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Rethinking Human Nature | |
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Conclusions | |
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Notes | |
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Where to Look for More-Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |