Introduction : ritual, economy and the institutions of the base / Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Economy as ritual : the problems of paying in wine / Jennifer Cash -- Animals in the Kyrgyz ritual economy : symbolic and moral dimensions of economic embedding / Nathan Light -- From pig-sticking...

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship,...

We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi-parametric algorithm, within 2-digit industries, covering agriculture,...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / ASHOK MISHRA, DAVIDE VIAGGI, AND SERGIO GOMEZ-Y-PALOMA -- The relationship between farm families and the structure of agriculture / MARY C. AHEARN AND WALTER ARMBRUSTER -- Influence of cap on social sustainability in Greek and Bulgarian rural areas / D....

This study uses household level data collected in Shandong Province of China to study rural formal financial institutions' lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and respondentsattitude towards interest rates on formal loan in China's rural setting. The main body of the...