This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It
emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different …

We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its
achievements, shortcomings, and prospects, while referring back to the discipline's founders …

In recent years" leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from
North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these …

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a
future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that …

Amid its rapidly increasing usage and immense public interest the subject of Bitcoin has
raised profound economic and societal issues. In this paper we undertake economic and …

The pre-crisis rise and post-crisis resilience of European repo and securitization markets
represent political victories for the interests of large banks. To explain when and how finance …

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The
gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is …

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political
economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is …

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't
land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the …

WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www. bisa-ipeg. org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-
winner-announced/Under the rubric of 'financial inclusion', lending to the poor–in both the …