Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0759112010 ISBN 13: 9780759112018

Publisher: AltaMira Press (UK), 2008

Synopsis

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. The chapters explore economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies. Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction and influences of different societies in the global system, the international ethnographic research in this book can help document and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press (UK)
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759112010
• ISBN 13: 9780759112018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Katherine E. Browne, B. Lynne Milgram