ASA Globalog: Wall Street Bonuses: Culture, Identity, and Crisis
Prof Karen Z. Ho, University of Minnesota This entry is meant to provoke and continue our discussion on financial crises, and in particular, American finance capitalists’ roles in helping to produce...
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Dr Gillian Tett, Anthropologist and Assistant Editor, Financial Times Back in the days when I first became a financial journalist – some 15 years ago – I would sometimes feel a touch embarrassed when...
View ArticleASA Globalog: Anthropology News: an article by our blogger
Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Ethics Officer, ASA See the October 2009 issue of Anthropology News on ‘ECONOMIC CRISIS: ORIGINS’ – includes an article by Gillian Tett (Icebergs and Ideologies: How...
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Dr Gillian Tett, Anthropologist and Assistant Editor, Financial Times While I was recently reading Karen Ho’s excellent ethnography of Wall Street, Liquidated, I was struck by a passage where she...
View ArticleASA Globalog: Capitalising on crisis
Please see this article on the emergence of markets in new environmental products (e.g. carbon) in relation to the financial crisis, as a route through which capitalism is capitalising on crisis:...
View ArticleASA Globalog: “In the long run we’re all dead” (Keynes)
Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative Maynard Keynes stormed out of the Versailles treaty negotiations after his advice not to pulverize the German economy was rejected by Lloyd-George and...
View ArticleASA Globalog: “The great economic revolutions are monetary in nature” (Mauss)
Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative For Marcel Mauss, the years 1920-25 were packed and fruitful. His political party and the Left in general had a real shot at winning power in France and did so...
View ArticleASA Globalog: The limits of naivety in the anthropology of money
Keith Hart The Memory Bank What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has...
View ArticleASA Globalog: Surfing the credit crunch with Abdul Aziz
Keith Hart www.thememorybank.co.uk The fall of the Berlin Wall was famously heralded as ‘the end of history’, but in fact it restored a sense of history for many of us by catapulting us back to before...
View ArticleASA Globalog: Why don’t more people make their own money?
Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative What can anthropology offer someone who wants to understand money better? Most anthropologists don’t like money and they don’t have much of it. It symbolizes...
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