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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Figures
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1 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
- 2 Economics and the Problem of Human Nature
- Defining the Economy
- Redefining Economic Anthropology
- Notes
- 3 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
- 4 Social and Political Economy
- Social Humans
- Power and Politics
- 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
- 5 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
- 6 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
- Notes
- 7 Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings
- The Case of the Leaking Houses
- The Problem of Explaining Things
- Resolving the Fundamental Issues
- Rethinking Human Nature
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Appendix: Where to Look for More—Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology
- Bibliography
- Index
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