The financial crisis and its economic and political aftermath have changed the ways that many anthropologists approach economic activities, institutions and systems. This insightful volume presents important elements of this change. With topics ranging from the relationship of states and markets...

Contents: Introduction / James G. Carrier -- 1. Collective economic actors / Greg Urban -- 2. Research directions on states and markets / Felix Stein -- 3. Inequality / Tom Neumark -- 4. Debt, financialisation and politics / Fabio Mattioli -- 5. Resources: Nature, value and time / Jaume...