Papers 17 November 2006

Intellectual property (2006) An edited extract from The Hit Man's Dilemma, submitted as a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of Current Anthropology on "Neo-liberal Keywords".

Marcel Mauss: in pursuit of the whole (2006) A review article submitted to Comparative Studies in Society and History, based on Marecl Fournier's new English translation of Marcel Mauss: A Biography (2006) and containing 'The strange history of The Gift'.

IE + IT = ED? (2006) Is informal economy plus information technology a path towards economic democracy? paper presented at the workshop, 'Clusters, network organization and the informal economy', Bologna, 29-30 June 2006 in the series Rethinking Economies.

A Short History of Economic Anthropology (2006) Paper written with Chris Hann for a workshop, 'Anthropological approaches to the economy', held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 21-24 June 2006. Being revised for publication.

If money talks, what language does it speak? (2006) Draft of a chapter for Gudeman and Klammer, eds., Persuasion in Economic Life, Berghahn (forthcoming)

Informality: the problem or the solution? (2006) Presentation at the World Bank PSD Forum in Washington DC, April 4-6

The globalization of apartheid (2006) Presentation for the first in a series of ESRC-sponsored workshops on Rethinking Economies organised by Catherine Alexander and the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College.

African enterprise and the informal economy (2006) Original English version of a chapter published in a French book, S. Ellis and Y. Faure, eds., Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains, Paris (1994). Reprinted in Paloma Gay y Blasco and Huon Wardle, How to Read Ethnography (Routledge, forthcoming).

The euro: a challenge for anthropological method (2005) Paper, given at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (November 2005); Goldsmiths College (December 2005); Goa (December 2005); and Lille (March 2006).

Common Wealth: building economic democracy with community currencies (2005) Published in French in a report of the Walras Centre, Lyon on 'Social money', 2005-6.

The Hit Man's Dilemma Abridged (2005) 7,000 words version of The Hit Man's Dilemma.

Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy (2004) Paper presented at the EGDI-WIDER conference, “Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors”, 17–18 September 2004 in Helsinki

Some Reflections on Anthropology and Political Economy (2004) Majid Al-Haj, Michael Saltman and Zvi Sobel, eds., Festschrift for Henry Rosenfeld, University of Haifa (in preparation).

From Bell-Curve to Power-Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society (2004) For the Social Analysis Forum on Reductionism

Notes on the Counter-Revolution (2004) Several pieces on American politics written in Paris after 9-11, and in Chicago during and after the Iraq war. Shorter version published in K. Brown ed. Irak: de la crise au chaos.

Organic Trade: Global Food Politics and Local Economic Democracy (2003) Keynote address to the conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), “Mainstreaming Organic Trade: New Frontiers, Opportunities and Responsibilities”, Bangkok, 6-8 November 2003.

Intangible Money Matters (2003) Long paper given to the University of Pennsylvania ethno-history seminar on the consequences of virtual money for subject-object relations.

Studying World Society as a Vocation (2003) Public lecture at Goldsmith’s College London, subsequently published as a pamphlet. How might we study world society? Draws heavily on Kant’s example. 'The Highland problem': state and community in local development (2000) Arkleton Research Paper No. 1 written with Gillian Munro (pdf file). Examines decentralized development in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Clarkson, Cambridge and the International Movement for Human Rights (1996) Transcription of an improvised lecture given to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Thomas Clarkson’s death — on the history of abolitionism at Cambridge, the university as an institution, and the prospects for global humanitarian reform.

Waiting for emancipation: indigenous slavery in West Africa (1996) Paper given at the inaugural conference of the Tulane-Cambridge Atlantic World Studies Group

James, Tocqueville and Baudrillard (1990) Short note written by Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart in preparation of C.L.R. James American Civilization (Blackwell, 1993), but finally not included in the Editors' Introduction.