1st Edition

A New Economic Anthropology

By François Régis Mahieu Copyright 2023
118 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

118 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

118 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics, despite the prominence given to the individual in microeconomics. And there is very little in the way of dialogue between the two sides. This book... Read more

Introduction

1. Nature of economic anthropology

2. Anthropology and economic theory, a difficult association

3. Integration of personal responsibility

4. An anthropology of human and social vulnerability

5. The suffering of the person

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Biography

François Régis Mahieu is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Versailles – Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. During the 1980s, he taught for eight years at the University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He carried out numerous missions in Sub-Saharan Africa for international organizations. He is the founder of the association “Fund for Research in Economic Ethics”, FREE, and scientific advisor to International Mixt Research Unit “Résiliences” (Institute of Research for Development, Paris and Ivorian Center for Economic and Social Research, Abidjan). He has published several books to illustrate his approach, including Altruisme. Analyses économiques (1998), Ethique économique, fondements anthropologiques (2001), Ethique économique (2003, with Jérôme Ballet), Responsabilité et crimes économiques (2008), Autour de l’anthropologie économique, actualité des écrits du Professeur André Nicolaï (2014), and Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person (2014).