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

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. Rethinking gifts and commodities : reciprocity, recognition, and the morality of exchange / Joel Robbins The grift : getting burned in the northern Malagasy sapphire trade Andrew walsh Maya daykeepers : new spiritual clients and the morality of making money / Walter E. Little Extreme gifting : the moral economy of a community school / Rhoda H. Halperin Thiefing a chance : moral meanings of theft in a Trinidadian garment factory / Rebecca Prentice Patriotism, profits and waste : the moral dimensions of low-level radioactive disposal in Texas / Cynthia Werner Virtue at the checkout till : salvation economics in Kenyan flower fields / Catherine S. Dolan Beyond CSR : dilemmas and paradoxes of ethical conduct in transnational organizations / Christina Garsten and Tor Hernes I am the conscience of the company : responsibility and the gift in a transnational mining corporation / Dinah Rajak Moral behavior in stock markets : Islamic finance and socially responsible investment / Aaron Z. Pitluck Moral economies, economic moralities : consider the possibilities! / Bill Maurer.