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World Orders Old and New – Latin America

The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the…

The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings

Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American,…

How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Finale

The Euro crisis: an episode in the history of money. The monetary crisis that has overwhelmed the eurozone of late…

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How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3

The demise of national capitalism. To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system,…

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How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart

The dialectics of form. “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most…

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How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart

A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at…

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Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart

The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience.…

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Why George Floyd Matters

With all due respect and no malice intended but the George Floyd murder is not the first time African American…

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Pandemics: Agents of Global Change – Part 2

The Economic and Commercial Impact of Pandemics: By now, the COVID-19 influenza outbreak has reached practically all parts of the…

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New Preface to Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy by Keith Hart

IV. The informal economy has taken over the World The idea of an informal economy was born in the 1970s…

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Pandemics: agents of global change

It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology.…

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Cultural Critique: Anthropological – by Keith Hart

Cultural critique, the use of anthropology to draw critical attention to institutions that readers take for granted, is as old…

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The Subjugation of Liberal Democracy

Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political…

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Religious Colonizing in Brazil

After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country.…

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The Collapse of Societies

By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States.  It seems…

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Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart

In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual…

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The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World-by Keith Hart

Food in a New Economic Order What is ‘new’ about neo-liberalism? It is a world economic order based on selective…

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Filtered Realities

In order to proceed, we must first acknowledge the more than three decades of work by a man who has…

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The Mueller Report: Highlights

The Mueller Report is probably one of the most extensive legal investigations in the history of the United States. Certainly,…

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The Horror of War – Part 3

Sometime in June 1971, an incident occurred that completely changed my attitude toward the US Army. In fact, I was…

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The Horror of War – Part 2

It was Christmas Eve and it just so happened that I pulled guard duty. The post I was assigned to…

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The Horror of War – Part 1

With all the violence in the world and the ever growing movement of mankind toward more violence, it appears there…

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The Virus of Violence

In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases. This curriculum is usually…

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An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 2 by Keith Hart

As we approached the millennium, with the dotcom boom roaring away, I wanted to write a book that would sum…

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An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 1 by Keith Hart

Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, well-known for his inspiring YouTube lectures and documentary shorts,…

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