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Manifesto for a human economy
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Started this discussion. Last reply by John McCreery Feb 26.

The OAC summarised on Savage Minds
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Started this discussion. Last reply by John McCreery Dec 22, 2012.

Opening Anthropology: part 2 of an interview at Savage Minds
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The Memory Bank: A New Commonwealth ver 5.0

I have recently posted two pieces on the potential for an anthropology of world society using the resources made available by the internet.

The digital revolution and me

Studying world society as a vocation

I have made two other attempts at telling my story (both sung to an old Hoagy Carmichael tune):

Manchester on my mind

Africa on my mind


About my website.

Banks are slower-moving deposits of fast-moving flows, whether of water, information or money. This website is my Memory Bank, but it is meant to reach out to a public that shares my aims. The two great human memory banks are language and money which are converging into a single network of digital communications in our time. The idea of a 'New Commonwealth' refers to the possibility that money might serve the purposes of economic democracy more fully than it has; but beyond that to the need to make a world society fit for all humanity.

We face an extraordinary moment in history when the old structures are palpably failing. The formation of a global civil society, even a world state, is an urgent task. Anthropology has a distinguished past, but it has an even greater role to play in future, not necessarily as an academic discipline, but perhaps as an interdisiciplinary project: to discover what we need to know about humanity as a whole if we would make a better world. Such a project depends on making full use of the emerging social and technical synthesis entailed in the digital revolution.

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At 12:16am on May 31, 2013, Magdalena Bialoborska said…

Yes, I know. And I find realy interesting your speech for the Conference organized by Marzia Grassi in 2007. I'll keep in touch.

At 10:35pm on May 30, 2013, Magdalena Bialoborska said…

Hallo Keith, its a pleasure to join this comunity, its a real pleasure to get your welcome note. I've just put some more info in my profile, now I'm going to surf here to get to know more about OAC. I'm investigating informal economy in Cape Verde in general, informal workers organizations in particular, but I'm especially interested in the people who chose to live from art, from creation..

At 8:56pm on May 12, 2013, Marce Casado said…

Keith, thanks for your friendship!

At 6:40pm on April 29, 2013, Benoît de L'Estoile said…

Hi Keith, I am in fact in Paris, but I understand you are now in S. Africa! We now have a project with Federico Neiburg on "Modes of government and ordinary economic practices", which is thrilling. I am off to Brazil, where we'll discuss this. Would love to have a beer when you're around.

Benoît

At 2:22am on March 29, 2013, David Jenkins said…

Hi Keith. As you're aware I've damn all to add to this forum! If it's OK I'd just like to read.

Hope all is well with you and love to Sophie and Constance

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Keith Hart replied to Elaine Forde's discussion human geography
"There's another one, Elaine. What's the difference between cultural anthropology and cultural geography? In the latter case, you have to introduce the word space at least three times in every paragraph."
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Keith Hart replied to Elaine Forde's discussion Terminology
"Elaine, I am claiming that English is particularly suited to this game because it retains a number of registers relating to different phases of its history. So you get form and shape, for example or pig (OE), pork (Fr), hog (Cletic), ham (German)…"
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Keith Hart replied to Elaine Forde's discussion Terminology
"What I said was: If a Latin word becomes commonplace, users can trade up to Greek, as in this case. The point was that a Latin origin normally suffices to raise a word above those of Germanic origin in the hierarchy of English, as Elaine grasped,…"
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"OK, here's a different way of doing it. My word is distribution. In business today it means how products get to their users. But it is being supplanted by the word logistics. This is an example of a common process in English. Most common words…"
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Terminology hub

A weekly bulletin aimed at reclaiming "jargon". Each week a new term will be posted, with definition and a reference or two. Anyone can post and everyone is welcome, all I ask is that the terminology is defined, with an example of usage, and at least one reference, where possible.See More
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"Just a note on formatting a reply to someone else's comment. It is hard when using the visual editor to separate the quote you are replying to from your own entry. One should appears in italics, the other as normal. Click on HTML in the menu…"
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Keith Hart's Blog

The case for an African customs union

I will first explain what I mean by saying that the informal economy, a concept I was associated with coining in the early 1970s, has taken over the world, largely as a result of neoliberal deregulation over the last three decades (pp. 1-3). After a brief account of my own early exposure to West Africa (pp. 3-5), I turn to the question of how and why Africa has long been a symbol of global inequality. Even after independence, Africans are still waiting from emancipation (pp. 5-10). Even so…

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Posted on June 6, 2013 at 3:24pm

After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)

Nate Roberts posted a link on Facebook to a recent piece by Paul Krugman essentially saying that he once thought Naomi Klein's views on neoliberalism were extreme, but now he thinks she could be right. This led me to look up an Anthropology Today editorial I published in…

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Posted on May 19, 2013 at 9:30am

The Human Economy approach endorsed by Nobel laureate economist aged 102

Ronald Coase, an American economist of British origin, won a Nobel prize for inventing the idea of transaction costs in his famous paper "The nature of the firm" (1937). He is now 102 years old and has just announced his desire, with a young Chinese associate, to found a new journal called "Man and the economy" (well he was born in 1910).

A century ago, Alfred Marshall, author of Principles of Economics (1890) and Keynes' teacher at Cambridge defined economics as “both a study of…

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Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:14pm — 11 Comments

The limits of Karl Polanyi's anti-market approach in the struggle for economic democracy

I am a fully paid-up member of the Karl Polanyi fan club. In the past few years I have published, with my collaborators, a collection of essays on the significance of The Great Transformation for understanding our times (Blanc 2011, Holmes 2012) and have made him a canonical figure for my versions of economic anthropology, the human economy and the history of money. I have also published two short biographical articles on him. I have contributed in this way to the recent outpouring of…

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Posted on January 16, 2013 at 6:37pm

How the informal economy took over the world

The idea of an informal economy was born at the moment when the post-war era of developmental states was drawing to a close. The 1970s were a watershed between three decades of state management of the economy and the free market decades of one-world capitalism that ended with the financial crisis of 2008. It seems now that the economy has escaped from all attempts to make it publicly accountable. What are the forms of state that can regulate a world of money that is now essentially lawless?…

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Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

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