The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important...

This unique Handbook contains substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work on economic processes and issues, and on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life. Furthermore it describes conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists, and...

"Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since...

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...