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Author Mahieu, François-Régis

Title A New Economic Anthropology
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (119 p.)
Series Economics and Humanities Ser
Economics and Humanities Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Translation -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Nature of Economic Anthropology -- 1.1 Anthropology -- 1.2 The Anthropological Question in Contemporary Economic Theory -- 1.3 Definition of Economic Anthropology -- 1.4 Economic Anthropology Or Anthropological Economics? -- 1.5 In Search of Ethics Through Economic Anthropology -- 1.6 Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Anthropology and Economic Theory, a Difficult Association
2.1 The Difficulties of an Association Between Economics and Anthropology -- 2.1.1 Is Economics A-Anthropological? -- 2.1.2 Humankind, the Troublemaker -- 2.1.3 Is Microeconomics an Economic Anthropology? -- 2.1.4 A Difficult Expansion of Economic Calculation -- 2.2 How Can Anthropology Be Better Associated With Economics? -- 2.2.1 A Difficult Association -- 2.2.2 Economic Anthropology and Economic Theory: the Conditioned Humankind of Social Interaction -- 2.2.3 Economic Anthropology in the Face of Conflicts of Method -- 2.2.3.1 What Is Humankind? Status of Methodological Individualism
2.2.3.2 Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomic Imbalances -- 2.3 The Method: From Conflicts to Complementarity -- 2.3.1 Anthropology Favours Personal Experience in the Field -- 2.3.2 Complementarity of Methods in the Understanding of the Person -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Integration of Personal Responsibility -- 3.1 Responsibility -- 3.1.1 Definition -- 3.1.2 An Application: Personal Rights and Obligations -- 3.1.3 The Community, Place of Responsibility -- 3.2 Rationality -- 3.3 Reasonability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
4 An Anthropology of Human and Social Vulnerability -- 4.1 Define Vulnerability -- 4.1.1 A Difficult Definition -- 4.1.2 Vulnerability, Fragility, Fallibility, Faultivity -- 4.2 Vulnerability and Responsibility -- 4.2.1 A Special Case: the Person Responsible Is Therefore Vulnerable -- 4.2.2 Representation and Prediction Tools -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 The Suffering of the Person -- 5.1 Suffering and Well-Being -- 5.1.1 Suffering And/or Negative Utility -- 5.1.2 Priority to the Reduction of Suffering -- 5.2 An Ethics of Suffering
5.2.1 An Ethical Imperative: Not to Increase Suffering -- 5.2.2 A Heuristic of Suffering: a Long-Term Equilibrium -- 5.3 Interest of Psychoanalysis for the Economy -- 5.4 Economic Concepts and Models -- 5.4.1 A Principle of Compensation -- 5.4.2 An Intrapersonal Equilibrium -- 5.4.3 Extensions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Glossary -- Agency -- Agent -- Altruism -- Anthropology -- Cultural Anthropology -- Economic Anthropology -- Physical Anthropology -- Social Anthropology -- Autonomy -- Capability -- Capacities -- Dignity -- Envy -- Ethics
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Ethics of Responsibility
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000890327
1000890325