摘要:One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading.Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore.The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested them.Here is what some of them kindly contributed.
其他摘要:One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested them. Here is what some of them kindly contributed.