How do moral frameworks interact with economic systems?
” Economics and Morality signals that a new anthropological scholarship is emerging and the interplay of economics and morality is becoming its own focus of study across disciplines. It is a time of profound economic change in the world and there is an urgency to comprehend how we can grasp and make good this uncharted future. Economics and Morality presents fieldwork from societies of variable scales and degrees of integration with capitalist systems. This groundbreaking volume focuses on studies from different kinds of capitalist societies such as those organized around welfare state economies, economies shaped by an Islamic state and neoliberal Western states. The chapters focus on three concerns: 1. How moral strains accompany rapidly changing indigenous economic practices. 2. How grassroots movements and moral claims generated from the ground up occur in the context of capitalism. 3. How movements taking place within corporate and state institutions attempt to build trust and repu
