Economics and Morality

Anthropological Approaches
Herausgeber: Browne, Katherine E.; Milgram, B. Lynne

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Produktbeschreibung

In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780759112025
• ISBN-10: 0759112029
• Artikelnr.: 27036697

Autorenporträt

Katherine E. Browne is professor of anthropology at Colorado State University. B. Lynne Milgram is professor of anthropology at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Inhaltsangabe

Economics and Morality: Introduction Part I. The Stakes of Morality,
Reciprocity, and Change Chapter 1. Rethinking Gifts and Commodities:
Reciprocity, Recognition, and the Morality of Exchange Chapter 2. The
Grift: Getting Burned in the Northern Malagasy Sapphire Trade Chapter 3.
Maya Daykeepers: New Spiritual Clients and the Morality of Making Money
Part II. Moral Agency Inside Market Logic Chapter 4. Extreme Gifting: The
Moral Economy of a Community School Chapter 5. "Thiefing a Chance:" Moral
Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment Factory Chapter 6. Patriotism,
Profits, and Waste: The Moral Dimensions of Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal in Texas Chapter 7. Virtue at the Checkout Till: Salvation
Economics in Kenyan Flower Fields Part III. Frontiers of Social
Responsibility Chapter 8. Beyond CSR: Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Ethical
Conduct in Transnational Organizations Chapter 9. "I am the Conscience of
the Company:" Responsibility and the Gift in a Transnational Mining
Corporation Chapter 10. Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic Finance
and Socially Responsible Investment Afterword: Moral Economies, Economic
Moralities: Consider the Possibilities!

Rezensionen

Economic activity involves more than rational, calculating individuals buying and selling with each other, as amply demonstrated by the essays in Economics and Morality. The breadth of this collection is impressive, ranging from exchange in Papua New Guinea, ethical consumption in the UK, and toxic waste in the U.S. to stocks and shares in global markets. In these cases we begin to see the morality of economy, the ways in which values, relationships, and economic actions reflect and shape each other. That ghostly 'rational actor' may pervade popular and even scholarly economic thought, but this collection shows how different is the economic activity that we see around us. -- James G. Carrier, Oxford Brookes University and Indiana University Notions of the economic and the moral have long been intertwined, but recent changes in the world and in social theory have newly problematized the interrelationship. Economics and Morality is a wide-ranging and superbly edited collection that revitalizes an anthropological tradition, making it speak to new concerns. -- Donald L. Donham, University of California, Davis This is an exciting, innovative, and carefully crafted collection of papers that speak to the core issues of social and economic life. The contributions are rich and varied, and engage common issues to a degree you rarely see in an edited volume. This is one of the very best recent books in economic anthropology - fascinating case studies on the very cutting edge of the changing global economy. -- Richard Wilk, University of California, Berkeley