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According to Wikipedia, Keith Hart is a British anthropologist and writer living in Paris. His main research has focused on economic anthropology, Africa and the African diaspora, and money. He has taught at universities including East Anglia, Manchester, Yale and the Chicago, as well as at Cambridge University where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He contributed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World and Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes. His written work focuses on the national limits of politics in a globalised economy.

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Keith Hart 's Published Works

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Published Papers

Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana (1973) (2467)
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (1974) (768)
Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin (1986) (265)
8. Small‐scale entrepreneurs in Ghana and development planning (1970) (184)
The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World (2000) (160)
Bureaucratic form and the informal economy (2006) (135)
Money in an unequal world (2001) (130)
Market and society : the great Transformation today (2009) (128)
Economic anthropology : history, ethnography, critique (2011) (118)
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History (2014) (92)
The human economy : a citizen's guide (2010) (88)
African Traders and Economic Development in Ghana (1971) (78)
The Human Economy (2010) (68)
Marcel Mauss: In Pursuit of the Whole. A Review Essay (2007) (65)
Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy (2005) (63)
Money is always personal and impersonal (2007) (61)
A new approach to rural development in Europe : Germany, Greece, Scotland, and Sweden (2004) (57)
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier (2010) (56)
The C. L. R. James Reader (1992) (51)
Money in an Unequal World: Keith Hart and His Memory Bank (2001) (50)
Migration and Tribal Identity among the Frafras of Ghana (1971) (47)
Indian Business in South Africa after Apartheid: New and Old Trajectories (2000) (46)
Kinship, Contract, and Trust (2000) (41)
What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire (2014) (36)
new approach to rural development in Europe (2004) (36)
Money: One Anthropologist's View (2005) (30)
The Hit Man's Dilemma: Or Business, Personal and Impersonal (2005) (30)
The Social Anthropology of West Africa (1985) (30)
Between bureaucracy and the people: A political history of informality (2008) (29)
A history of South African capitalism in national and global perspective (2013) (25)
Anthropology and the Crisis of the Intellectuals (1994) (25)
Marcel Mauss : In Pursuit of the Whole (2007) (23)
Anthropology in the financial crisis (2008) (23)
Introduction: learning from Polanyi 1 (2009) (22)
Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today: Money in the making of world society (2009) (22)
On the informal economy: the political history of an ethnographic concept (2009) (20)
The Standard of living : the Tanner lectures, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1985 (1989) (19)
The peasant marketing system of Oaxaca, Mexico (1976) (19)
Putting Marketing Ideas into Action (1998) (17)
Marcel Mauss’s economic vision, 1920–1925: Anthropology, politics, journalism (2014) (16)
The Population Factor in African Studies. (1976) (16)
Women and the sexual division of labour in the Caribbean (1989) (15)
Kant, ‘anthropology’ and the new human universal (2010) (15)
People, money, and power in the economic crisis: perspectives from the global South (2015) (14)
Cattle as capital (1987) (12)
Ritual Aspects of the Mamprusi Kingship (1977) (12)
The Politics of Unemployment in Ghana (1976) (11)
The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies. (1985) (11)
Karl Polanyi's Legacy (2008) (11)
What anthropologists really do (2004) (10)
From craft to industry: On commoditization (1982) (10)
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (10)
Notes towards an anthropology of the internet (2004) (10)
British social anthropology's nationalist project (2003) (8)
Market and Society (2009) (8)
Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo. (1974) (7)
Introducing the African economy (2010) (7)
Commoditisation and the Standard of Living (1987) (7)
Industrial Labour in India (2000) (6)
INQUIRY INTO COAL SEAM GAS (2011) (6)
An anthropologist in the world revolution (2009) (6)
Models of statistical distribution (2010) (6)
The African revolution : urban commerce and the informal economy * (2008) (6)
Marcel Mauss: A living inspiration (2014) (6)
Introduction.: Money in a Human Economy (2017) (6)
Money in Twentieth-century Anthropology (2012) (6)
The financial crisis and the end of all-purpose money (2011) (6)
South Africa in Africa: From national capitalism to regional integration (2010) (5)
Money as a Form of Religious Life (2010) (5)
Jack Goody: The Anthropology of Unequal Society (2014) (5)
Money from a cultural point of view (2015) (4)
Reflections on Ghana’s Informal Economy at Fifty Years (2016) (4)
Reflections on a Visit to New York (2000) (4)
A Note on Arjun Appadurai's 'The Spirit of Calculation' (2012) (4)
Studying world society as a vocation. GARP9 (2003) (4)
The anthropology of debt (2016) (4)
Brexit: Where once was an empire (2016) (4)
After 2008: Market Fundamentalism at the Crossroads (2018) (3)
Manchester on my mind: a memoir (2003) (3)
Swindler or Public Benefactor? – The Entrepreneur in his Community (2018) (3)
End of the World: Anthropologists Speechless (1996) (3)
Decentralized development in the Scottish Highlands (2001) (3)
Decentralized development in the European Union (2003) (3)
From Bell Curve to Power Law: Distributional Models between National and World Society (2004) (3)
Comment on Pearson's " Homo Economicus Goes Native" (2000) (2)
Anthropologists and development (2002) (2)
Shades of Radcliffe-Brown (1986) (2)
After the disaster (2008) (2)
The London bombings: A crisis for multiculturalism? (2005) (2)
PROFESSOR SIR JOHN RANKINE GOODY FBA (AKA JACK), 1919–2015 (2015) (2)
Therapy, ideology and social change: mental healing in urban Ghana (1986) (2)
The Hit Man's Dilemma (2005) (2)
The West's moral and political crisis (2017) (2)
Capitalism and Our Moment in the History of Money (2017) (2)
C.L.R. James and 'The Struggle for Happiness' (1991) (2)
The Politics of Anthropology: Conditions for Thought and Practice (1998) (2)
Towards an alternative economics: The view from France (2008) (2)
The Financial Crisis and the History of Money (2012) (2)
LETTER FROM EUROPE: February 2005 (2005) (1)
Book Reviews: Ethnicity, Inc. by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff (2010) (1)
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF AGEING SAFETY CRITICAL ELEMENTS IN OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS AND HOW THE AGEING PROCESSES IMPACT THE ROLE OF SCES TO ACT AS BARRIERS TO MAJOR ACCIDENTS (2009) (1)
Letter from Europe: April 2006 (2006) (1)
Book Review: Jack Goody, The Eurasian Miracle, Cambridge: Polity, 2010, 159 pp (2011) (1)
After the financial crisis: towards a human economy (2011) (1)
Letter from Europe: December 2004 (2004) (1)
"The great economic revolutions are monetary in nature". Mauss, Polanyi and the breakdown of the neoliberal world economy (2009) (1)
Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today: Bibliography (2009) (1)
Agrarian civilization and modern world society (2006) (1)
Liberal Revolutions and the African Future: An Interview with Keith Hart (2015) (1)
The political economy of West African agriculture: The market and capital in agricultural development (1982) (1)
Leading indicators for the management of maintenance programmes ; a Joint industry programme (2008) (1)
Recent transformations in how anthropologists study money (2016) (1)
The Legal Order of Gift-giving Richard Hyland, Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009). (2010) (1)
The World in Time-Space (2007) (1)
DAVID GRAEBER (1961‐2020) (2020) (1)
Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits (Breidenbach and Nyíri) (2011) (1)
Anthropology and the Economy, by Stephen Gudeman (2017) (1)
The Personal Significance of Impersonal Money (2017) (1)
MEMORIAL CELEBRATION FOR POLLY HILL: Cambridge, 28 May 2006 (2006) (1)
Interview with Keith Hart (2006) (0)
Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pp. (2016) (0)
Select annotated bibliography (1982) (0)
Letter from Europe, June 2004 (2004) (0)
Producing blanks from webs (1996) (0)
Modelling the asset allocation process and the effectiveness of the models through time (2000) (0)
Keith Hart Money from a cultural point of view (2016) (0)
Mauss, Kant and the Obligation to Reciprocate (2009) (0)
Keith Hart Answers Eleven Questions about Economic Anthropology: Interview (2007) (0)
Society is revealed by its crises (2021) (0)
Techniques, technology and civilisation – Edited by Marcel Mauss (2008) (0)
Mauss’s Economic Vision Back in the Years 1920–1925 (2010) (0)
Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies (2012) (0)
Money and Banking in Scotland and Norway (2018) (0)
MARSHALL DAVID SAHLINS (1930–2021) (2021) (0)
Cultural Critique, Anthropological (2001) (0)
Lampposts and non‐conformism (2008) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: The organization of agricultural production (1982) (0)
Prickly Pear Polemics No 2 (1997) (0)
Parry, Jonathan. Classes of labour: work and life in a central Indian steel town. xxx, 702 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2020. £140.00 (cloth) (2021) (0)
Urban and Rural Analysis in West Africa (1983) (0)
M auss, M arcel (1872–1950) (2018) (0)
POPULAR ANTHROPOLOGY A response to Mills, AT 22[2] (2006) (0)
Comment on Touraine (2002) (0)
The Affairs of Daura: history and change in a Hausa state: 1800–1958 , by M. G. Smith (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978, 532 pages). (1981) (0)
Anna Grimshaw and C. L. R. James (1992) (0)
On responsibility in finance (2022) (0)
Letter from Europe (2004) (0)
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1982) (0)
Peil, Margaret and Sada, Pius O., "African Urban Society" (Book Review) (1986) (0)
Anthropologie de la globalisation by Abélès, Marc Globalization: the key concepts by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2009) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: Introduction (1982) (0)
8. Money and Banking in Scotland and Norway (2015) (0)
Decolonizing Cambridge University (2018) (0)
Austerity:: An Economy of Words? (2018) (0)
Mean reversion in asset prices and asset allocation in investment management (1996) (0)
Letter From Europe, October 2004 (2004) (0)
Prickly Pear Polemics (1997) (0)
On the game: women and sex work – By Sophie Day (2009) (0)
On gambling, divination, and religion (2020) (0)
Peopled economies: conversations with Stephen Gudeman – Edited by Staffan Löfving (2006) (0)
The state in agricultural development (1982) (0)
THE SYMPOSIUM: How can economic anthropology contribute to a more just world? (2017) (0)
Immediate struggles: people, power, and place in rural Spain – By Susana Narotzky & Gavin Smith (2008) (0)
The Modernization of Development Anthropology (1984) (0)
Dobu: ethics of exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea – By Susanne Kuehling (2009) (0)
In the Company of C. L. R. James@@@American Civilization. (1994) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: West Africa's economic backwardness in anthropological perspective (1982) (0)
ESTHER NEWCOMB GOODY (1932–2018) (2018) (0)
Marcel Fournier, Émile Durkheim: A Biography . Cambridge: Polity, 2012, pp. 866. (2014) (0)
Roy A. “Skip” Rappaport (1926–1997) (1999) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: The social impact of commercial agriculture (1982) (0)
The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development. PETER WORSLEY (1985) (0)
Anthropology and relevance (2004) (0)
African Urban Kinsman: the Ga of Central Accra (1976) (0)
New lamps for old?: Why Veblen beats the Nobel Laureates (2010) (0)
Decentralized development: reflections on methodology (2004) (0)
Shorter Notices (1984) (0)
Comments on Critique of The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship (2022) (0)
Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa. MICHAEL M. HOROWITZ and THOMAS M. PAINTER (1987) (0)
German idealism and jamaican national culture (1990) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: What is to be done? (1982) (0)
Self in the World (2022) (0)
Fieldwork Guide for Economic Anthropologists: Preoccupation with the Objective (1990) (0)
The political economy of West African agriculture: Supplementary bibliography (1982) (0)
Fitting for use in a gas or liquid line (2003) (0)
RHETORIC IN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS (2005) (0)
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho (2011) (0)

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