Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge University Press), Economics as Culture (Routledge), The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge), and Economy’s Tension (Berghahn).

“The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology, sociology, and economics, and offers much to interest scholars from each of these disciplines.”  ·  JRAI

• PrefaceStephen GudemanChapter 1. IntroductionStephen GudemanChapter 2. Simplicity in economic anthropology: Persuasion, form and substanceJames G. CarrierChapter 3. The concept of interest as rhetoric – or as a useful social science concept?Richard SwedbergChapter 4. The new social science imperialism and the problem of knowledge in contemporary economicsWilliam MilbergChapter 5. The persuasions of economicsStephen GudemanChapter 6. Conversations between anthropologists and economistsMetin CosgelChapter 7. “The craving for intelligibility:” Speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in NigeriaJane Guyer with LaRay DenzerChapter 8. Mass-gifts: On gifts in advanced capitalist marketsNurit Bird-David and Asaf DarrChapter 9. The persuasive power of moneyKeith HartChapter 10. The money rhetoric in the United StatesRuben George OlivenChapter 11. The third way: A cultural economic perspectiveArjo KlamerBibliographyIndex

Stephen Gudeman received his PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge University Press), Economics as Culture (Routledge), The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge), and Economy’s Tension (Berghahn).

“The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology, sociology, and economics, and offers much to interest scholars from each of these disciplines.”  ·  JRAI

• PrefaceStephen GudemanChapter 1. IntroductionStephen GudemanChapter 2. Simplicity in economic anthropology: Persuasion, form and substanceJames G. CarrierChapter 3. The concept of interest as rhetoric – or as a useful social science concept?Richard SwedbergChapter 4. The new social science imperialism and the problem of knowledge in contemporary economicsWilliam MilbergChapter 5. The persuasions of economicsStephen GudemanChapter 6. Conversations between anthropologists and economistsMetin CosgelChapter 7. “The craving for intelligibility:” Speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in NigeriaJane Guyer with LaRay DenzerChapter 8. Mass-gifts: On gifts in advanced capitalist marketsNurit Bird-David and Asaf DarrChapter 9. The persuasive power of moneyKeith HartChapter 10. The money rhetoric in the United StatesRuben George OlivenChapter 11. The third way: A cultural economic perspectiveArjo KlamerBibliographyIndex