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  • Gifts and Commodities

    by C. A. Gregory ...
    Series series HAU - Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Savage Money

    by C.A. Gregory ...
    This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    by David Harvey ...
    Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Small Voice of History

    Collected Essays

    by Ranajit Guha ...
    Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical Marxism that ran parallel to the work of British and French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Nature of Money

    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and ... Read more

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  • Prout

    Humanistic Socialism and Economic Democracy

    by Acharya Krtashivananda ...
    The progressive utilisation theory (PROUT) defines maximum, balanced, and progressive utilisation and rational distribution of crude, subtle, and causal resources. Its humanistic socialism indicates that construction of industries, roads, and buildings are not the criteria of progress but evolution of human values, and quality of life in a spiritual sense are the real criteria. Economic democracy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Land and Social Change in East Nepal

    A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations

    by Professor Lionel Caplan, Lionel Caplan ...
    This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of confrontation over land, the book nonetheless stresses how they are linked by ties of economic and political interdependence and in so doing, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Higher Education in India

    In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

    Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak ...
    India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Debt

    by Alexander X. Douglas ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    I owe you a dinner invitation, you owe ten years on your mortgage, and the government owes billions. We speak confidently about these cases of debt, but is that concept clear in its meaning? This book aims to clarify the concept of debt so we can find better answers to important moral and political questions.This book seeks to accomplish two things. The first is to clarify the concept of debt by ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Peasants and Workers in Nepal

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    by D.Snddon ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The fieldwork on which this collection of essays on peasants and workers in Nepal is based was undertaken in the mid-1970s, by an international team associated with the Overseas Development Group at the University of East Anglia. The fieldwork also gave rise to several other publications, including Nepal in Crisis and The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal (both now re-published by Adroit ... Read more

    $7.99 USD