In recent years, a number of different strands within heterodox economic thinking have
successfully provided more empirically robust and sociologically informed analyses of how …

Many archaeologists do not realize that their commonsense assumptions about what
constitutes money naturalize orthodox (neoclassical) economic theory. Rather than the …

Now with SAGE Publishing! In a first-of-its-kind format, Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-
Based Approach is organized by problems and questions rather than topics, creating a …

While money is critical to the modern world, ecological economics does not have a theory of
money that is applicable to its theoretical framework and policy prescriptions. Accordingly …

This article defines social and financial money as distinct institutions that account for
different realms of value. I present a fundamental dichotomy among economists' where …

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it,
how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? Peadar Kirby investigates the …

ABSTRACT US and Europe-based banks and international financial institutions including
the IMF have been central to critical accounts of Africa's place in global capitalism. And yet …

Apocalyptic thinking has a long religious and political tradition, but what place does it
occupy within the temporal universe of contemporary capitalism? In this essay, we use the …

Digital payment platforms have permeated consumers' mobile phones and social lives in a
marketplace which was once dominated by cash, checks, and credit cards. Sociocultural …

How might an objective observer conceive of what humans have accomplished as a species
over its brief history? Benjamin argues that history can be judged as one giant catastrophe …