Value (2016)

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Reading List

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Graeber, David. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Gregory, Chris A. Savage Money – the Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange.  Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.

Harris, Olivia. “What Makes People Work?”. In Questions of Anthropology edited by Rita Astuti, Jonathan Parry and Charles Stafford, 137-67. New York and Oxford: Berg, 2007.

Ho, Karen. Liquidated – an Ethnography of Wall Street (Especially Chapter 3 on “Shareholder Value”).  Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Ch. 3 on “Essentials of the Kula” and Ch.6 on “Tribal Economics”).  London: Routledge, 1922 (2002).

Mankiw, Gregory N. Principles of Economics. 6 ed.  Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2012.

Marx, Karl. Capital. Volume 1.  New York: International Publishers, 1884.

———. Capital. Volume 3.  New York: International Publishers, 1884.

Mauss, Marcel. The Gift – the Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies.  London and New York: Routledge, 1954 [1990].

Miller, D. “The Uses of Value.” Geoforum 39 (2008): 1122-32.

Parry, Jonathan, and Maurice Bloch. Money and the Morality of Exchange.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Rival, Laura. “Ecuador’s Yasuni-Itt Initiative: The Old and New Values of Petroleum.” Ecological economics 70, no. 2 (2010): 358-65.

Sahlins, Marshall. “On the Culture of Material Value and the Cosmography of Riches.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3, no. 2 (2013): 161-95.

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai. “Bear Skins and Macaoni: The Social Life of Things at the Margins of a Siberian State Collective.” In The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies, edited by Paul Seabright, 345-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Zelizer, Viviana A. (Chapter 1). The Purchase of Intimacy (Introduction).  Princeton Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005.