Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes
back to the very beginnings of the discipline. Nevertheless, this review dedicates itself …

A rapprochement between the anthropology of history and the anthropology of capitalism
has created a temporal turn. This temporal turn has generated new theoretical insights into …

This paper looks at recent forms of 'responsible investment'. It follows the use of ESG within
a large global bank. ESG is a valuation technique that takes into account environmental …

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played
around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot …

Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass
demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to …

In this introduction, I argue that in spite of recent discussions of global and neoliberal time,
the anthropology of modern time remains under‐explored. Modern time here is understood …

Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched
look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of …

The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s
to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a …

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or
bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a'chain': an often extended …

We develop early warning models for financial crisis prediction applying machine learning
techniques on macrofinancial data for 17 countries over 1870–2016. Most nonlinear …