Money in a Human Economy

Keith Hart’s approach to the theory and practice of money combines state and market, but with people in mind, while focusing on how the communications revolution is transforming money. He is professor of anthropology emeritus at Goldsmiths London and co-directed the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria, 2011-2018. His books include The Memory Bank (aka Money in an Unequal World), The Hit Man’s Dilemma, The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide, Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and Economy For and Against Democracy.

PART I: INTRODUCTION



Introduction: Money in a Human Economy

Keith Hart



Chapter 1. Capitalism and our Moment in the History of Money

Keith Hart



PART II: THINKING ABOUT MONEY



Chapter 2. Money is Good to Think: From “Wants of the Mind” to Conversation, Stories and Accounts

Jane Guyer



Chapter 3. The Shadow of Aristotle: A History of Ideas about the Origins of Money

Joseph Noko



Chapter 4. Luxury and the Sexual Economy of Capitalism

Noam Yuran



PART III: THE EVOLUTION OF MONEY TODAY



Chapter 5. The Future of Money is Shaped by the Family Practices of the Global South

Supriya Singh



Chapter 6. Remittance Securitization in the Hemisphere of the Américas: From Wall Street to Calle Principal and Back

David Pedersen



Chapter 7. Cross-border Investment in China

Horacio Ortiz



Chapter 8. Value Transfer and Rent: Or, I Didn’t Realize My Payment Was Your Annuity

Bill Maurer



Chapter 9. The politics of Bitcoin

Nigel Dodd



PART IV: MONEY IN ITS TIME AND PLACE



Chapter 10. A South Asian Mercantile Model of Exchange: Hundi During British Rule

Marina Martin



Chapter 11. Money and Markets for and Against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s-1930s

Sean Maliehe



Chapter 12. Gender and Money in the Argentinian Trueque

Hadrien Saiag



Chapter 13. An Imaginary Currency: The Haitian Dollar

Federico Neiburg



Bibliography

Index