Economic Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic Anthropology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Economic Anthropology17
Economic Anthropology16
“It all depends on the market”: Taste as an economic fact12
Past performance is no guarantee of future results†10
The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency9
The Other Half of the Ass: A Manifesto for Anthropology in Neo‐Illiberal Times9
Response to comments: “Four alternative currencies and their worlds”9
Southern politics, southern power prices: Race, utility regulation, and the value of energy7
Estimations of value in “Belgrade's Amazonia”6
Toward Platform Capitalism in Agrobiodiversity? Examining the Potential Challenges of E‐Commerce Integration in Agrobiodiversity Apps6
Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. By MelindaCooper. New York: Zone Books. 2024. 564 pp.6
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“If It Is Stocks, It Is Not Supposed to Be a Pyramid Scheme!” Financial Consultants, Illiberal Economies, and State‐Led Financialization in Postsocialist Kazakhstan5
Valuing and devaluing: Struggles over social payments, dignity, and sneakers4
Space Matters: Marketplace and Interactional Order in the Nepalese “Manpower Bazaar”4
Ancient numismatists and the seasteading movement4
Crafting Compliant Data: Enacting Aggregate Spend Transparency in the US Life Science Industry4
Work and the Data Economy: On Abstraction and Contempt4
Economic Anthropology3
The organization of ancient economies: A global perspective. By KennethHirth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 462 pp.3
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The rise and fall of national capitalism3
The New Viking Age: A speculative historical archaeology3
A crisis of authenticity: Becoming entrepreneurial and the quest for “cultural appropriateness” among the Mapuche2
Value as ethics: Climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the future2
Who are neorurals? or, How capitalist time discipline dilutes political projects and makes it difficult to propose an alternative2
Taxation and the Polanyian forms of integration in socialist and postsocialist Hungary2
Dolia: The containers that made rome an empire of wine. By CarolineCheung, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2024. pp. 3342
What a difference political economy makes: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic forms?2
Unlearning hope: White Christian encounters with grace as a logic of exchange2
The Power of Money. An Outline of the Origins of Money By HeinrichSchurtz. Translated and Annotated and With an Introduction by EnriqueMartino and MarioS2
Logics of reciprocity in Denmark: Longing and belonging in a virtuous cycle of welfare2
Workers to capitalists: Repositioning Berlin's middle class2
Game of tax: Rethinking the relationship between redistribution and reciprocity through a Georgian tax lottery2
Trust in the Trustless: Chronotopes of Currency in Adult Industry Crypto2
Making women pay: Microfinance in urban India. By SmithaRadhakrishnan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 272 pp.2
Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods By ChristianKrohn‐Hansen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 240 pp.2
Fleeting Wealth: On Gain and Loss of Contemporary Inalienable Possessions1
Economic Anthropology1
Textures of value: Tactility, experience, and exclusion in the cashmere commodity chain1
States of faḍl or stating faḍl: On the value of indebtedness for Iraqi exiles in Jordan1
Economic Anthropology1
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Virtual Pets, Real Precarity: Crypto Gaming as Speculative Labor in Inflation‐Ridden Cuba1
Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas. By Joseph C.Russo. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. 152 pp.1
Sharing Debt and Houses: Strategies for Surviving Late Capitalism Among Aging Ghanaian Migrants in Canada1
Exploring Folk Theories of Data Labor in Human Services1
Reaching millions: Water, substitute infrastructure, and the politics of scale in Kenya1
“For People Like You”: Exploring Deservingness and Entitlement in Middle‐Class Responses to the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit During the COVID 1
“Jobbos” and the “wageless life”: Exploring work and responsibility in the anti‐fracking movement in Lancashire, United Kingdom1
Garazhniki: Gleaning, Trading, and Improvising in a Postindustrial Monotown1
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Small work pleasures and two types of well‐being1
Distributed fiscal relations and their imaginaries: Metaphors of redistribution and reciprocity in struggles about distributive justice in Austria1
Missionary, citizen, and consumer: Evangelical American child sponsorship and humanitarian marketing in the 1950s and 1960s1
Productivist fiscal deservingness: Entangled understandings of reciprocity and redistribution among German business owners1
Informality and Social Networking: The Huan Qian Practice of the Chinese Business Community in Morocco1
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus. By TheodorosRakopoulos, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2024. pp. 2481
Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey1
Reply to comments on “The rise and fall of national capitalism”1
Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below1
The laziness myth: Narratives of work and the good life in South Africa. By ChristineJeske. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 246 pp.1
Mrs. Columbo's antipolitics machine: Quantitative data in responsible finance1
Evaluating well‐being after compulsory resettlement: Livelihoods, standards of living, and well‐being in Manantali, Mali1
Defiant Women of the Sea: Challenging the Gendering of the Spanish Fishery Sector1
Anthropological perspectives on race, nation, economics, and white supremacy: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic forms?0
An Immodest Rejoinder: Illiberalism and Postliberalism, But Still Neoliberalism0
Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba0
Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value0
“Having Experience of What to Do to Succeed”: Unsettling Neoliberalism Through the Lived Experiences of Microcredit Trader‐Borrowers in Ibadan0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, markets, and technology in Buenos Aires. By Juan Manueldel Nido. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 256 pp.0
“Sometimes it looks fake”:Hiyaland contrivances as tools for exploring aspirations for radical social change0
Does (national) capitalism suck?0
We Hear, for You: The Value of Listening to Our Corporate Colleagues0
From Rare to Common: The Live Streaming Industry of Jadeite Trade in Ruili in the China–Myanmar Borderlands0
Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland0
Patch‐work: The economic and moral complementarity of informal entrepreneurs' multiple projects in Congo‐Brazzaville0
The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands0
Rethinking economic sovereignty0
Amplify, decolonize, collaborate, question: Action items for promoting just and antiracist economies: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic 0
The Mercantilists’ Last Laugh. An Outline of the Origins of Money By HeinrichSchurtz. EnriqueMartino and MarioSchmidt (trans.), Hau Books, 2024. 273 pp. 0
Reorienting transpacific commerce: On the subject of Chinese entrepreneurism in Central America0
National capitalism, unhinged0
Free Range Capital for Indoor Agriculture0
Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings0
A mass conspiracy to feed people: Food Not Bombs and the world‐class waste of global cities. By David BoarderGiles. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp.0
The future of money — seen from above0
Imperial Policies and Well‐Being in the Prehistoric Andes0
Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship0
Four alternative currencies and their worlds0
Prospecting for “Corruption”: Generating Political Value in Contemporary India0
Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse0
Money, Rank and the Frailty of Authority: Schurtz’s World and Ours. An Outline of the Origins of Money By HeinrichSchurtz. Translated and Annotated and W0
Roots and sprouts: Legacies and futures of historic racial economic inequities and models for ways forward: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist eco0
Life is a gift: Value cosmologies in Hollywood cinema0
Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority0
Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City0
Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom0
Kretek capitalism: Making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia. By MarinaWelker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. 248 pp.0
Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde0
The value added of solidarity economies: Bureaucratic constructions of value for alternative economic policy in Ecuador0
“Now Everything Is Money”: Social Difference and Value in the Southern Andes0
The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China0
How Bronze Age Europeans almost got rid of money0
Introduction to special issue: Value, values, and anthropology0
Sanctified suffering and the common good: Translocal health care provisioning in smalltown Senegal0
Understanding Illiberalism Through Economic Practice: Four Cases0
Understanding money; Or, why social and financial accounting should not be conflated0
Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco‐Based Multi‐Level Marketers of “Healthy” Food Tell UsAboutValues in Market Societies0
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Well‐being in the context of Indigenous heritage management: A Hach Winik perspective from Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico0
A promise is a promise: A love letter from the ACH to the world of 2050†0
In Memoriam Keith Hart, 1943–20250
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. By Maron E.Greenleaf, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Paper $27.95; Hardcover $104.95. Pages: 304; Illustrations: 21 i0
The substance of society0
Fractured Ownership and the Tragedy of the Anticommons in Hawai‘i0
Editor's note0
Constructing Symbolic Value in Marketing Silver Crafts of Iu Mien Entrepreneurs in Thailand0
The “Department of Human Needs”: Renewable energy and the water–energy–land nexus in Zanzibar0
Military wealth: How money shapes Indigenous‐state relations among Canadian rangers0
Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start‐up0
How Do We Know What We Grow? Interrogating the Datafication of Agricultural Landscapes in the United States0
An Exploration of Credit/Debt in Impact Investments for Rural Development in Ghana0
Austerity's implications: Parasitism and charity in an English village0
Economic Anthropology0
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A Modest Proposal for University Reform: It's Time We Stop Half‐Assing Neoliberalism and Start Whole‐Assing It0
Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits0
Pink gold: Women, shrimp and work in Mexico. By María L.Cruz‐Torres, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2023. pp. 384.0
The value of values: Sufficiency among single‐person businesses in the United States0
Wastecraft and its multifaceted learning in Cuba0
How are you, anthropology? Reflections on well‐being and the common good0
From money to culture: The practical indeterminacy of Bitcoin's values and temporalities0
The hidden strength of small business: Social networks and wet market vendors in China0
Free money's ideological nature: A comparative analysis of unconditional cash transfers in Eastern Africa0
Peasant traders, migrant workers and “supermarkets”: Low‐cost provisions and the reproduction of migrant labor in China0
Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland's Harris Tweed Industry. By JoanaNascimento, Berghahn Books. 2023. 230 pp. New York: Berghahn Books Series: Anthropology at w0
Short‐Term Sustainability: Neoliberal Philanthropy, Dependency, and Divine Economics in Islamic Zanzibar0
Legacies, logics, labors of love: Essays on the economic anthropology of Jane Guyer0
Anti‐Black racism, anthropology, and reparations: QUESTION: How can economic anthropology promote the construction of just and anti‐racist economic forms?0
Predatory Economies: The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia. By AmyPenfield. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023. 248 pp.0
(Tele)therapist, Platform Worker, Data Manager: Therapeutic Labor and the New Therapeutic Exchange0
Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland. By DaenaAki Funahashi. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 203 pp.0
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Accessing cash(lessness): Cash dependency, debt, and digital finance in a marginalized Roma neighborhood0
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Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania0
Designing “Korean” Kimchi: Speculative Configuration of Distance and Commodity Value in the Chinese Kimchi Industry0
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh. By LamiaKarim. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.0
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Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third World Tastemakers Create Value. By Edward F.Fischer. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 306 pp.0
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