The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa - examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people's concrete economic activities and...
The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money cont...
The volume is the first monograph on Sicily's rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
The volume is the first monograph on Sicily's rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to ...
A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to...
A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book a...
Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital's central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.
Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital's central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its cu...
