Economics and morality [ anthropological approaches

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Browne, Katherine E. , 1953- (Author), Milgram, B. Lynne [ (Barbara Lynne)] , 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: Society for Economic Anthropology (US)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press , c2009
Series:Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Rethinking gifts and commodities : reciprocity, recognition, and the morality of exchange
  • 2. The grift : getting burned in the northern Malagasy sapphire trade
  • 3. Maya daykeepers : new spiritual clients and the morality of making money
  • 4. Extreme gifting : the moral economy of a community school
  • 5. Thiefing a chance : moral meanings of theft in a Trinidadian garment factory
  • 6. Patriotism, profits and waste : the moral dimensions of low-level radioactive disposal in Texas
  • 7. Virtue at the checkout till : salvation economics in Kenyan flower fields
  • 8. Beyond CSR : dilemmas and paradoxes of ethical conduct in transnational organizations
  • 9. I am the conscience of the company : responsibility and the gift in a transnational mining corporation
  • 10. Moral behavior in stock markets : Islamic finance and socially responsible investment
  • 11. Moral economies, economic moralities : consider the possibilities!