论人类学的经济学

经济人类学是人类学中与经济学对话的部分。它以人类的经济行为为研究对象,但与经济学对经济的理解不同。由于经济是嵌合在社会制度中的,经济人类学必须从人类全盘的风俗和制度中来着手自己的研究。它的领域比较广泛,不仅描述人们的生产、交换、分配和消费方式,以及这些系统如何组织、动作,还包括建立理论来描述制度脉络和影响,经济运作的动力等。

On Economic Anthropology

Economic anthropology is where anthropology meets economics. It focuses on the study of people's economic activities, but its understanding of economy is different from that of economists. With economy entrenched in social systems, economic anthropology has to be proceed from the entire customs and systems of human beings. Economic anthropology covers a wide range of interests, such as describing people's ways of production, exchange, distribution and consumption, understanding how these systems are organized and operated, and establishing theories to depict the framework and influence of systems and the impetus of economic operation.