Economic Anthropology

What does anthropology have to do with economics? How can we make sense of drastic changes in how we work, pay for things, rely on each other, and imagine the future? Taught by a former Prof. of Economics and researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank, this course shows the distinctive approach of anthropology to matters economic, and how anthropology creates such knowledge through ethnography and archival research. By reading debates about "economy" in different cultures, historical periods, and moral philosophy, this course shows the many ways people have organized economic affairs in the past and might in the future.