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<\/figure>22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series<\/a>, which has just published John D. Conroy’s Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are too many volumes and collections to list here so we concentrate on the following major publications which attest to Keith Hart’s profound contribution to economic anthropology, money, and markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n We each embark on two life journeys \u2013 one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life\u2019s extremes \u2013 individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paperback, digital, hardback<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paperback, digital, hardback<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paperback, digital, hardback<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cold War was fought between \u201cstate socialism\u201d and \u201cthe free market.\u201d That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies – from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paperback, digital, hardback<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n For the latest news on our books and journals please\u00a0sign up for our\u00a0email newsletters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series, which has just published John… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,1816,1740,1817,111,349,875,495,855,1760,1725,1776,1815,1724,1601,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19128,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions\/19128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HartSelf-1.jpg\")
<\/figure>SELF IN THE WORLD<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Connecting Life’s Extremes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>MONEY IN A HUMAN ECONOMY<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>ECONOMY FOR AND AGAINST DEMOCRACY<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>PEOPLE, MONEY AND POWER IN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Perspectives from the Global South<\/h2>\n\n\n\n