Richard Wilk is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Lisa Cliggett is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, USA.

• Preface to the Second Edition -- Economic Anthropology An Undisciplined Discipline -- Economics and the Problem of Human Nature -- Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics -- Social and Political Economy -- The Moral Human Cultural Economics -- Gifts and Exchange -- Conclusions Complex Economic Human Beings -- Appendix