"This book is a translation based on a corrected version of the work [Une anthropologie économique] published in 2016 by L'Harmattan Editions, Paris."

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"Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics, despite the prominence given to the individual in microeconomics. And there is very little in the way of dialogue between the two sides. This book argues for a new economic anthropology which goes beyond the conflict of economics and anthropology to show the complementarity of the two approaches. Economics needs to go beyond the stage of homo oeconomicus and be open to broader ideas about the person. Equally, anthropology can be enriched through the methods and models of economic theory. This new economic anthropology goes beyond a simple observation of societies. It is new because it introduces the responsible person with a wider range of characteristics, in particular vulnerability and suffering, as a subject of economics. It is a particular interpretation of economic anthropology calling for a broadening of the subject (moving from the individual to the person), range of values (admission of negative values for altruism, social capital, responsibility), and disciplinary references. Through this approach, both economics and anthropology can be enriched. This book will be of great interest to those working in the fields of economics, anthropology, philosophy and development studies"-- Provided by publisher.

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François Régis Mahieu is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. During the 1980s, he taught for eight years at the University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He carried out numerous missions in Sub-Saharan Africa for international organizations. He is the founder of the association "Fund for Research in Economic Ethics", FREE, and scientific advisor to International Mixt Research Unit "Résiliences" (Institute of Research for Development, Paris and Ivorian Center for Economic and Social Research, Abidjan). He has published several books to illustrate his approach, including Altruisme. Analyses économiques (1998), Ethique économique, fondements anthropologiques (2001), Ethique économique (2003, with Jérôme Ballet), Responsabilité et crimes économiques (2008), Autour de l'anthropologie économique, actualité des écrits du Professeur André Nicolaï (2014), and Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person (2014).

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