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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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Economics and Morality: Introduction
- Part 1. THE STAKES OF MORALITY, RECIPROCITY, AND CHANGE
- Chapter 01. Rethinking Gifts and Commodities: Reciprocity, Recognition, and the Morality of Exchange
- Chapter 02. The Grift: Getting Burned in the Northern Malagasy Sapphire Trade
- Chapter 03. Maya Daykeepers: New Spiritual Clients and the Morality of Making Money
- Part 2. MORAL AGENCY INSIDE MARKET LOGIC
- Chapter 04. Extreme Gifting: The Moral Economy of a Community School
- Chapter 05. “Thiefing a Chance”: Moral Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment Factory
- Chapter 06. Patriotism, Profits, and Waste: The Moral Dimensions of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in Texas
- Chapter 07. Virtue at the Checkout Till: Salvation Economics in Kenyan Flower Fields
- Part 3. FRONTIERS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 08. Beyond CSR: Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Ethical Conduct in Transnational Organizations
- Chapter 09. “I Am the Conscience of the Company”: Responsibility and the Gift in a Transnational Mining Corporation
- Chapter 10. Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic Finance and Socially Responsible Investment
- Afterword. Moral Economies, Economic Moralities: Consider the Possibilities!
- Index
- About the Contributors
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