Anthropology

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Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Altruistically Inclined?

The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity

By Alexander J. Field
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics

Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Conflict

Rethinking Development Assistance

Edited by Milton J. Esman & Ronald J. Herring
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology

Investigates whether international development assistance helps or aggravates ethnic strife

A Telescope on Society

Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond

Edited by James S. House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, and Howard Schuman
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

Maps the development of social science in the twentieth century through the instrument of survey research

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Markets and Cultural Voices

Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters

By Tyler Cowen
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Latin American Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the world of three Mexican artists to reveal how globalization shapes their lives

Preference Pollution

How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike

By David George
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the failure of markets to shape desirable preferences

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Contesting the Commons

Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya

By Carolyn K. Lesorogol
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics

Examines the highly disputed idea of privatizing communal land through one Samburu community

Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities

A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered

By Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology

A study of Muslim, Sinhala, and Tamil households in Sri Lanka that examines the commonality of the patriarchal structures and economic problems in such households

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Harvesting Development

The Construction of Fresh Food Markets in Papua New Guinea

By Karl Benediktsson
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, System -- Development

An examination of the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Guinea

Economic Organizations and Social Systems

By Robert A. Solo
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

The reappearance of a book written and published before its time

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

Culture and Economy

The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia

Edited by Timothy Brook & Hy V. Luong
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Asian Studies, Economics

Shows how rapid expansion of capitalism in Eastern Asia constitutes a challenge to Western social theory

The Allure of the Foreign

Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America

Edited by Benjamin Orlove
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Latin American Studies, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A rich analysis of the internal social factors that drive the demand for foreign goods

Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity

Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange

By Janet Landa
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How ethnic kin-based trading networks can rely on trust when a well-developed framework of contract laws is missing

Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources

By Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and Jimmy Walker
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics
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