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Comment by Kathryn Papp on May 10, 2011 at 4:50pm

Financial trading: a complex biological system?  

See how "nutritional points" are determined by researching nomadic peoples!

How can the wealth of data from carefully observed and recorded social systems find a new place in this electronic framework?  

Do you think it would improve the management of natural resources at the local level by translating it to a methodology that is thriving perhaps hundreds of levels up ... on the trading floor and for the benefit of enormously powerful wealth nodes? 

Comment by Keith Hart on April 3, 2011 at 8:48pm

I would draw members attention to a Forum discussion launched by John McCreery: Ten Precepts for the Social Studies of Finance. This summarizes a chapter in a 2009 book written by Donald McKenzie who is certainly one of the leading figures in the study of th eeconomy by non-economists.

Comment by Daromir Rudnyckyj on November 12, 2010 at 1:23am

I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development. The book is based on over two years of field research and analyzes efforts to promote a form of Islamic practice compatible with globalization and economic transformation in Indonesia.

More information is available at: http://web.uvic.ca/~daromir/se.html

Comment by Patty A. Gray on September 8, 2010 at 5:18pm

Hi Davide! Welcome!

Comment by Keith Hart on September 7, 2010 at 3:30pm

Because in the Southern hemisphere it was winter.

Comment by Davide Torsello on September 7, 2010 at 3:13pm

Thanks Keith,
why do you call them Northern summer months? Do you mean they were cold?
I am in Helsinki presently and few days ago it was 8 degrees...
I will try to learn how to start a discussion
cheers

Comment by Keith Hart on September 7, 2010 at 2:10pm

Welcome, Davide. Your research interests and experience look very interesting. Please feel free to start a discussion. The group has been quiet over the (Northern) summer months. I am sure members are ready for a new round. Posts to this Comment Wall go to most members. Please click on Follow for any specialist thread where you would like to be notified by email of new posts.

Comment by Davide Torsello on September 7, 2010 at 1:37pm

Hello to all,
I am an Italian social anthropologist based in Bergamo. I have been trained in anthropology mostly abroad (Japan, England, Germany) and finally I headed back to my country. In my past research I became interested in economic issues in anthropology particularly in relation with secondary economic practices, household living strategies, property. Recently I deal with reciprocity and corruption. I concentrate on Central Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic) where I study outcomes of large development projects on urban centres, looking at corruption discourses, environmental issues and civic organizations. I did other fieldwork research experiences in Japan and southern Italy.
I am very glad to join this list about which I discovered only some days ago and I am looking forward future discussion.

Comment by Richard Francis on September 2, 2010 at 4:31pm

Dear Keith,
Many thanks for your welcome. I have also joined a few other groups of interest and look forward to the discussions. Thanks also for the references. It was interesting to see the export of the 'Wall Street' culture to Russian investment banks in the past 20 years. the '98 crisis in Russia was a partial portent for the recent crisis. The Chinese have been more cautious in adopting this culture. I am curious to see what may arise instead.

Comment by Keith Hart on September 2, 2010 at 4:14pm

Welcome, Richard. If you go to the Groups index and click on the right-hand icon after Views, you will see all the Groups laid out alphabetically. There are at least a couple dealing with applied business anthropology. Traffic has not been high over the summer, but we hope that life in some of the Groups, such as this one, will pick up now that the holidays are over.

It is a curious fact that the financial crisis seems to have flushed out a number of major monographs by anthropologists. They include: Karen Ho's Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street; Alexandra Ouroussoff's Wall Street at War (which focuses on conflict between CEOs and the ratings agencies); and Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold (which exposed the history of credit derivatives). Tett is an FT journalist with a PhD in social anthropology.

A reviewer in the FT noted that books like these suggest a new synthesis of anthropology, economics and history may be round the corner.

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