Mathew Carey s long-neglected The New Olive Branch offers new insight into political economy as it really happened. This is the first-ever scholarly edition of Carey s most important economic work. Like other volumes in Anthem s Economic Ideas that Built America series, it gives the reader easy access to historical works that have been dropped from the modern economic canon because of their uncomfortable fit with contemporary conceptions of classical economics rooted in the work of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus.

In The New Olive Branch, Carey derided those so-called...

Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France s most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is blurred if not erased The Anti-Witch develops the contours of an anthropology of therapy, while deeply engaging with what it means to be caught in the logic of witchcraft. Through an intimate and provocative sharing of the ethnographic voice with Madame Flora, a dewitcher, Favret-Saada delivers a critical challenge to some of...