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Tit for Tat: Concepts of Exchange, Haggling, and Barter in Two Episodes in the History of Economic Anthropology

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Tit for Tat: Concepts of Exchange, Haggling, and Barter in Two Episodes in the History of Economic Anthropology
Author(s)Mirowski, Philip
AbstractThe history of economic thought has heretofore ignored parallel discussions of ‘economic’ concepts in other disciplines. This paper examines two twentieth century attempts to theorize exchange ratios and the appearance of higgling in economic anthropology in the works of Bronislaw Malinowski and Marshall Sahlins. One major finding is that, while there is a rival theory of price in their writings, these theorists were ambivalent about pressing the claims for an anthropologically based economics.
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Pages313-342
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceHistory of Political Economy
VolumeNo26
PubDateSupplement1994
ISBN_ISSN0018-2702
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