Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems : Inequality, Stability, and Cycles of Crisis.

By bringing together economic anthropology, ecology, and culture history, The Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems not only proposes a new model of human social evolution, but equally importantly creates a methodology for speaking to, and against, our present economic and environmental situation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caldararo, Niccolo Leo, Ph. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington Books, 2013.
Temas:
Economic anthropology.
Economic history.
Social structure.
Anthropologie économique.
Histoire économique.
Structure sociale.
social structure.
Economic anthropology
Economic history
Social structure
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Anthropology and Economics: A Review
  • Chapter 1: Anthropology and the Cosmology of Modern Economics
  • Chapter 2: Wants, Needs, and the Question of Surplus versus Wealth
  • Chapter 3: Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle
  • Chapter 4: Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life and Standard of Living
  • Chapter 5: The Great Debate: Economists and Anthropologists: The Market and Society, Continued
  • Part II Introduction to Hominid Economics
  • Chapter 6: Introduction
  • Chapter 7: Forest Fires: Origins and Myths
  • Chapter 8: Traditional Peoples and Fire
  • Chapter 9: Climate and Fire, Assessing Time's Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire
  • Chapter 10: Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society
  • Chapter 11: The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens
  • Chapter 12: Co-evolutionary Processes and Environmental Exploitation
  • Chapter 13: Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-Adapted Species vs "Old Growth"
  • Chapter 14: Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire Histories and Thermal Alteration
  • Chapter 15: Insects, Biomass Reduction and Pesticides
  • Chapter 16: Conclusion: Forests and the Future of Man
  • Part III Cycles of Growth and Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies
  • Chapter 17: Introduction
  • Chapter 18: The Problem of Population and the Nature of Human Society
  • Chapter 19: Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example
  • Chapter 20: The Evolution of Modern Japan and Its Transformation
  • Part IV The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View
  • Chapter 21: The Credit Crisis of 2008 to 20??
  • Chapter 22: Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work
  • Chapter 23: Fundamentalism versus Globalism
  • Part V Conclusion.

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