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Economic Anthropology
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ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited, with an Introduction, by Stuart Plattner
Originally published in 1989, this volume was the first comprehensive text in economic anthropology since the 1970’s. Written by twelve leading scholars, the book covers the traditional topics of economic behavior and institutions in foraging bands, horticultural tribes, pre-capitalist states, agrarian or peasant societies and industrialized states, as well as issues such as sex roles, common property resources, the informal sector, and mass marketing in developing urban areas. It included more in-depth coverage of some subjects than does any other text in the field, subjects like the central place theory of markets and marketplaces and the fundamentals of economic behavior in markets.
The approach is empirical and, though not ignoring controversy, aims to tell the reader what we know about the world rather than recording how we came to know it or disputing alternative views of the finer points of what we know.
The work presented here is more analytic than descriptive. The historical context of the observed social reality is given due consideration, and important parameters (such as the development of social infrastructure or the degree of risk in a transaction) are distinguished from enduring institutional constraints, such as kinship obligations.
Individuals are seen as full “rational,” in that their solutions to their economic problems make sense once one understands the many constraints (social, cultural, cognitive, and political, as well as economic) that they must take into account. This does not mean that their actions are optimal – merely that the analysis will make the behavior, or for that matter the institutions, understandable as a reasoned human response to a complex situation.
The contributors are James M. Acheson, Peggy F. Barlett, Frances Berdan, Laurel Bossen, Frank Cancian, Elizabeth Cashdan, Norbert Dannhaeuser, Christina H. Gladwin, Allen Johnson, Stuart Plattner, William Roseberry, and M. Estellie Smith.
At the time of publication, Stuart Plattner was Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the editor of, Markets and Marketing, and Formal Methods in Economic Anthropology.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 publication by Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804716455). Please review the preview file to see some of the imperfections that will appear in the print edition.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction 1
Stuart Plattner
2. Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands 21
Elizabeth Cashdan
3. Horticulturalists: Economic Behavior in Tribes 49
Allen Johnson
4. Trade and Markets in Precapitalist States 78
Frances F. Berdan
5. Peasants and the World 108
William Roseberry
6. Economic Behavior in Peasant Communities 127
Frank Cancian
7. Markets and Marketplaces 171
Stuart Plattner
8. Economic Behavior in Markets 209
Stuart Plattner
9. Marketing in Developing Urban Areas 222
Norbert Dannhaeuser
10. Industrial Agriculture 253
Peggy F. Barlett
11. The Informal Economy 292
M. Estellie Smith
12. Women and Economic Institutions 318
Laurel Bossen
13. Management of Common-Property Resources 351
James M. Acheson
14. Marxism 379
Stuart Plattner
15. On the Division of Labor Between Economics
And Economic Anthropology 397
Christina H. Gladwin
References Cited 429
Index 483
The Papaloapan Project : Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics
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Originally published in 1964 by Stanford University Press and the Food Research Institute.
The Papaloapan Project
Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics
Thomas T. Poleman
Many of Latin America's most pressing economic problems stem from the juxtaposition of rapid population growth and limited agricultural capabilities. In Mexico, Central America, and the Andean countries, these problems are compounded by the fact that most of the potential cropland is situated not in the highlands, where the population is concentrated, but in underdeveloped, low-lying tropical areas.
The Papaloapan Project is the first major governmental attempt to stimulate development in Mexico's humid tropical regions, which constitute about 20 percent of the country's land area and its greatest reserves of potentially arable land. Because of isolation, disease, and unpleasant climate, these regions have historically supported only a small population and a very limited agriculture. The purpose of this book is to describe and evaluate the sixteen-year experience of this regional development scheme, and to point up lessons of interest to the many countries now planning similar projects.
The first part of the study outlines the importance of the Papaloapan Project against a backdrop of Mexico's relatively meager agricultural resources and rapidly increasing population. In the second part, the physical and human resources of the Papaloapan River basin are described, its economy at the outset of the project is discussed, and events leading up to the creation of “Mexico’s TVA,” are reviewed. The final and major part of the study deals in detail with the project itself: the problems and difficulties encountered in getting it under way, and the results, both favorable and disappointing, thus far achieved. Particularly emphasized are the agricultural schemes carried out under the project, and the reasons for their lack of success. From this analysis are drawn general conclusions regarding the problems of agricultural development in pioneer tropical areas and government’s role in helping to overcome them.
In 1964, Mr. Poleman was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University.
A publication of the FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STUDIES IN TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press edition (ISBN 0804702071) published in 1964.
International Economics and Diplomacy in the Near East: A Study of British Commercial Policy in the Levant, 1834-1853
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Previous books on the Near East have treated the diplomatic and international relations but it remained for Dr. Puryear in this study based on extensive research in diplomatic and consular archives of the British and European governments to show the dominant part commerce played in the history of the period covered.
Professor Robert J. Kerner points out in his Forward to this volume: “The author….has carefully blended the economic and other factors, which ruled the period, with diplomacy, and has demonstrated in abundant detail the intimate connection which existed between the commercial and diplomatic efforts of the Great Powers. No only is a large and important segment of British commercial history clearly and adequately explored, but also it is fitted into the warp and woof of European commerce as a whole. The economic background of the Crimean War has received its first thorough analysis.”
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Title: International Economics and Diplomacy in the Near East
Author: Vernon John Puryear
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1935
ISBN: 080473318X
Contents:
Introduction 1
Anglo-Russian Political Rivalry 1834-1838 11
The Near Eastern Question in 1838 71
Virtual Free Trade Established in Turkey, 1838-1839 107
The Turco-Egyptian War of 1839-1841 and the Closure of the Straits to Foreign Warships 146
The Powers and the Near Eastern Grain Trade, 1840-1853 180
British Commercial Policy and the Crimean War 227
The Soviet Economy During the Plan Era
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The Bread Line
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This image was taken in a grocery store during the week that I purchased my Nikon D40x in 2007. When the economy turned in 2008, I brought this image into the limelight with a title and post treatment to give it a look of antiquity in modern times.
Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan
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Nearly all challenges, frustrations and triumphs which characterize economic processes in the developing countries are represented in Pakistan. There are acute problems of population pressure, illiteracy, lack of modern skills and shortage of capital and balance of payments deficits. But Pakistan also has its share of positive factors: a government and people with vision and determination, a willingness to study, learn and exert the necessary effort to win a respected place among modern nations. Of great importance is its climate of receptiveness to foreign enterprise, skills and ideas, and a determination to search everywhere for techniques in order to master them and use them in achieving a self-sustaining rate of progress.
Both authors have been closely associated with development in Pakistan and other countries for many years through living and studying in Burma, Pakistan and several other Asian countries, as well as through research for national and international agencies.
Businessmen, bankers and economists wishing to secure an up-to-date account of Pakistan's trade and payments, banking and public finance and its plan for economic growth will find this book useful.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan
Authors James Russell Andrus, Azizali F. Mohammed
Contributor Azizali F. Mohammed
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1966
ISBN 0804701261, 9780804701266
Length 289 pages
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Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor
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Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources.
Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years.
The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter.
Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war.
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Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement...
Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson
Stanford University Press, 1945
133 pages
The Economy of British Central Africa
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In 1953 the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland embarked on a challenger experiment in social relations, committing itself to pursuing a policy of "inter-racial partnership" among the area's multi-racial population. The ultimate success or failure of this policy, which may have a profound effect on the course of events throughout Africa, is closely linked with the economic performance of these territories.
Like many other underdeveloped areas, the Federation encompasses two distinct forms of economic organization. One form, the Western money economy introduced with European trade and settlement, can be measured and analyzed in terms of the conventional concepts of aggregative economics. The other form, the indigenous economy, is based largely on traditional agriculture and cannot easily be assessed by conventional methods. By examining the interaction of the two economies, the author has attempted to fill a serious gap in our economic knowledge.
Since the functioning of the Central African economic system cannot be fully understood apart from its non-economic context, the author considers certain political and social issues that have had a forceful impact on the Federation's economic life.
Mr. Barber is Associate Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University.
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The Economy of British Central Africa
William J. Barber
Published by Stanford University Press, 1961
271 pages
Measurement in Economics
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Twelve authorities in the field of econometrics here present essays in honor of the memory of the young Israeli economist Yehuda Grunfeld, whose death in July 1960 brought to an abrupt and tragic ending the life of one who had already shown abundant promise of a brilliant career.
The essays in this volume fall into four divisions, the most of which Grunfeld had himself made contributions: Theory and Measurement of Consumption, Theory and Measurement of Production, Theory and Measurement of Monetary Phenomena, and Economic Methodology.
At the time of his death, Grunfeld was Lecturer in Economics and Statistics at the Eliezer Kaplan School of Economics and Social Sciences of the Hebrew University of jerusalem. He was also a Senior Economist at the Falk Project for Economic Research in Israel. Earlier he had served as Assistant Professor of Economics at t he University of Chicago, and as an economist in the Fuel Division of the Israel Finance Ministry.
Grunfeld excelled particularly in empirical work in economics, the effective pursuit of which depends on a rare mixture of art and science. It was here that his remarkable sense of what was important played so vital a role.
"He was cut down brimming with ideas and plans: for an extension of his study of education, for a book on econometrics, for a series of essays in price theory. He did not live long enough to make the mark that he seemed destined to make on the profession as a whole. But even in the short time that was granted to him, he did leave a deep and indelible mark on teaching and research in Israel -- and on all who knew him personally or professionally." -- From the Memorial
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Measurement in economics: studies in mathematical economics and econometrics in memory of Yehuda Grunfeld
By Carl F. Christ, Yehuda Grunfeld
Published by Stanford University Press, 1963
ISBN 0804701369, 9780804701365
319 pages
Contents
Windfalls the Horizon and Related Concepts in the Permanent 3
depreciation reserve , consumer unit , accounting period
Tests of the PermanentIncome Hypothesis Based on a Reinterview 29
instrumental variable , serial correlation , Friedman's
Market Prices Opportunity Costs and Income Effects Jacob Mincer 67
opportunity cost , income effect , price of air
Demand Curves and Consumers Surplus Don Patinkin 83
indifference curve , compensating variation , consumer's surplus
Some Problems of Concept 115
depreciation , USDA , stock and flow
Estimation of Production and Behavioral Functions from a Combi 138
production function , simultaneous equations , least-squares estimates
Returns to Scale in Electricity Supply Marc Nerlove 167
returns to scale , electric power industry , Cobb-Douglas
Interest Rates and Portfolio Selection among Liquid Assets in 201
demand deposits , U.S. savings bonds , Treasury bills
The Dynamics of Inflation in Chile Arnold C Harberger 219
money supply , consumer price index , wholesale price index
Tests Based on the Movements in and the Comovements between 253
null hypothesis , Biometrika , covariance
LeastSquares Estimates of Transition Probabilities Lester G Telser 270
Markov process , Lucky Strike , least-squares estimates
On the Specification of Multivariate Relations among Survey Data 293
conditional probabilities , explanatory variables , residual variance
INDEX 315
A Future for the American Economy
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The American economy is filled with so many contradictions today that it foils the best prophecies and most sophisticated forecasts by economists. This book is about those contradictions and the directions the economy could take in the future. In particular, it is about the central contradiction: government control and market freedom. How this contradiction is resolved is important not only for the United States but also ultimately for countries around the world.
The main thesis of this book is that social factors-rather than purely economic factors-are at the root of the contradiction between market freedom and government control. The author argues that the way markets are socially organized is critical to their capacity for operating independent of government controls. In essence, the social organization of the private economy is the key to the free market system. The economy can function more productively and humanely if effort are made to reduce state controls and create a market system that is socially self-regulated.
Important first steps in this direction are readily observable. The author evaluates two important trends in corporate self-management-worker participation and co-ownership-presenting evidence that these trends are both in the corporate self-interest and in the public interest. Self-regulation is beginning at the intercorporate level, where firms compete and collaborate profitably in trade associations. New cooperative associations of small firms are shown to out-compete conglomerates through “value-adding partnerships” that utilize information technology and require the establishment of cooperative norms.
Self-regulation is advanced through social investment, the allocation of capital by combining ethical and economic criteria. Over $450 billion is now being invested with ethical guidelines, suggesting that a balance of social and economic factors will be a vital part of investment practice in the future. The author suggest that if the United States wants to retain a vital economy at home, it must carefully examine the advantages of the social organization world finance and encourage the popular world markets to regulate themselves without destroying local and national economies.
The author asserts that competition by itself is not a stable basis for market self-regulation, because it leads to government intervention, and he examines case studies of businesses in Europe and the United States that manage trade associations in the public interest. To demonstrate his proposed model of the social market, the author argues for the idea of self-accountable trade associations competing horizontally, vertically, and in value-added chains. The book concludes with policy recommendations for local, state, and the federal governments to encourage self-regulation, suggestion that legislation must be supplemented by voluntary incentives, support for social research, and new modes of professional consultation.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of one of the following editions:
Title: By A Future for the American Economy
Author: Severyn T. Bruyn
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804718725, 9780804718721
Contents
Introduction 1
Karl Marx , American Standards Association , market economy
THE SOCIAL MARKET 11
economic sociology , Physiocrats , nomic
A Theory of Oppositional Dynamics in the Market 44
Hegel , trade unions , perfect competition
THE EMERGING SOCIAL ORIENTATION 83
labor power , worker cooperatives , John Lewis Partnership
The Growth of Social Investment 119
U.S. Steel , Socially Responsible Investing , McKesson
The Growth of a Social Sector 148
sumer , nonprofit sector , interpersonal relationship
THE SOCIAL GOVERNANCE OF MARKETS 169
Social Economic Council , ABPI , raw milk
SelfRegulation 202
MITI , antitrust , Japan
Social Indexes 228
vertical integration , Sherman Antitrust Act , tegic
The Public Interest 251
allocative efficiency , OSHA , market failure
THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MARKETS 267
Organizational Studies , Alfred Chandler , antitrust
Public Policies 287
AIDA , intrapreneurs , LSI Logic
Conclusion 321
Albany Symphony Orchestra , postindustrial society , Daniel Bell
The Global Market 343
Eurodollar , Third World , U.S. dollar
Notes 365
Worker Cooperatives , Robert Reich , Robert Kuttner
Author Index 419
Severyn , Bruyn , Self-regulation
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