Katherine E. Browne is professor of anthropology at Colorado State University. B. Lynne Milgram is professor of anthropology at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Economic activity involves more than rational, calculating individuals buying and selling with each other, as amply demonstrated by the essays in Economics and Morality. The breadth of this collection is impressive, ranging from exchange in Papua New Guinea, ethical consumption in the UK, and toxic waste in the U.S. to stocks and shares in global markets. In these cases we begin to see the morality of economy, the ways in which values, relationships, and economic actions reflect and shape each other. That ghostly 'rational actor' may pervade popular and even scholarly economic thought, but this collection shows how different is the economic activity that we see around us.

• Economics and Morality: IntroductionPart I. The Stakes of Morality, Reciprocity, and ChangeChapter 1. Rethinking Gifts and Commodities: Reciprocity, Recognition, and the Morality of ExchangeChapter 2. The Grift: Getting Burned in the Northern Malagasy Sapphire TradeChapter 3. Maya Daykeepers: New Spiritual Clients and the Morality of Making MoneyPart II. Moral Agency Inside Market LogicChapter 4. Extreme Gifting: The Moral Economy of a Community SchoolChapter 5. "Thiefing a Chance:" Moral Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment FactoryChapter 6. Patriotism, Profits, and Waste: The Moral Dimensions of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in TexasChapter 7. Virtue at the Checkout Till: Salvation Economics in Kenyan Flower FieldsPart III. Frontiers of Social ResponsibilityChapter 8. Beyond CSR: Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Ethical Conduct in Transnational OrganizationsChapter 9. "I am the Conscience of the Company:" Responsibility and the Gift in a Transnational Mining CorporationChapter 10. Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic Finance and Socially Responsible InvestmentAfterword: Moral Economies, Economic Moralities: Consider the Possibilities!