"The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating...

Comprising eight case studies from around the world, this volume investigates the social, political and ethical implications of markets through the specific lens of prices. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in economic anthropology, it represents the first systematic attempt to address...

Introduction: Anthropological explorations of incongruous perspectives in the economics of ecology, exchange, and adpatation -- Part 1: Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Regulating the Ogallala paradox and ambiguity in Western Kansas -- Contested understandings of sustainability and...