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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