Dear  List Members,I would like to inform you about the organization of a summer workshop:The Re-birth of civil society? Theory and practice of the new civicmovements in Eastern Europe.It will be held in Budapest from August 29 toSeptemeber 3,2011.The workshop, with participation of scholars and practioners from Westernand Eastern Europe will focus on three fields: environmentalism, migrationand cultural heritage, and will have, this year, a country focus onHungary. The Workshop is structured…See More

HI all,I am puzzled by the discovery that, not recently of course, economists seem to have done of moral concerns. An increasing number of scholars in economy and business is using moral,  cultural and ethical explanations for problems and phenomena as different as transparency, business integrity, transaction costs and even calculation of benefits among stakeholders. Of course the use these works do of "cultural" and "moral" explanations is very dissimilar from what anthropologists can do. But…See More