Real Economy - Essays in Ethnographic Theory

This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies and good economies, and the dystopias of financial bubbles and busts, in which people’s own lives “crash” along with the reality of their economies.
 
An ambitious anthropology of economy, this volume questions how assemblages of vernacular and scientific realizations and enactments of the economy are linked to ideas of truth and moral value; how these multiple and shifting realities become present and entangle with historically and socially situated lives; and how the formal realizations of the concept of the “real” in the governance of economies engage with the experiential lives of ordinary people. Featuring essays from some of the world’s most prominent economic anthropologists, The Real Economy is a milestone collection in economic anthropology that crosses disciplinary boundaries and adds new life to social studies of the economy.

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Aceasta colectie evidentiaza o metafora cheie in discursul contemporan despre economie si societate. Contribuitorii exploreaza modul in care referintele la realitate si economia reala sunt legate atat de utopiile bunastarii colective, sustinute de bani reali si economii bune, cat si de distopiile bulelor si busturilor financiare, in care viata oamenilor se „prabuseste” impreuna cu realitatea economiilor lor.