%0 Book
%D 1996
%T Economies and Cultures: Foundations of economic anthropology
%A Wilk, Richard R.
%C Boulder, Colo.
%I WestviewPress
%K Economic anthropology.
%L mstax GN448main GN448ANT
%P xvii, 189
%Z Richard R. Wilk.Economies & culturesill. ; 24 cm.1. Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline. Controversy and Social Science. The Formalist-Substantivist Debate. Economic Anthropology After the Great Debate -- 2. Economics and the Problem of Human Nature. Defining the Economy. Redefining Economic Anthropology -- 3. Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics. The History of Self-Interest. The Foundations of Modern Economics. Neoclassical Microeconomics. Critiques of Formal Economics -- 4. Social and Political Economy. Social Humans. Power and Politics. Durkheim and the Social Organism. Karl Marx: Putting Politics into the Economy. Varieties of Social and Political Economy. Summary: The Problems of Structure and Agency -- 5. The Moral Human: Cultural Economics. Morals, Ideology, Symbols. The Roots of Moral Economics. The Question of Rationality and Culture. Problems with Cultural Economics. Cultural Economics, Round Two. Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? -- 6. Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings.The Case of the Leaking Houses. The Problem of Explaining Things. Resolving the Fundamental Issues. Rethinking Human Nature -- Appendix. Where to Look for More - Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology.
%@ 0813320593 (hc alk. pape