This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … Continue reading South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart
Unlike any other war the United States ever took part in, the Vietnam War was a major turning point. It … Continue reading SPECIAL EDITION: The Wages of War
Anti-military coup, pro-democracy marches occurring in Sudan with growing numbers and increasing frequency since October show there is a renewed, … Continue reading Sudan’s kleptocratic military system won’t stop the people’s movement from rising by Jehron Muhammad
Economic anthropologist Keith Hart (KH), one of the leading figures in African studies, spoke to Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio … Continue reading Liberal Revolutions and the African Future: An Interview with Keith Hart
Africa’s year 2021 was perplexing, horrendous, dramatic but also inspirational. It can be summed in the “two-ness” of the sojourn … Continue reading Africa 2021: Perplexing, horrendous, dramatic and inspiring by Jehron Muhammad
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … Continue reading Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union Part 2 by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … Continue reading Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union by Keith Hart
KHARTOUM, Sudan—Nothing says diversity like Sudan. Once Africa’s largest country, now divided by neocolonial and neoliberal machinations the U.S. helped … Continue reading Sudan: Its diversity, economics and history by Jehron Muhammad
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 3
by Keith Hart Heads or tails? Martin Fotta referred to a lecture of mine on money, “Heads or tails? Two … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 2
By Keith Hart The Promise and Limits of Ethnography I am usually rather concerned when I observe how unreflectingly my … Continue reading Gypsy Economy: the Promise and Limitations of Ethnography
How Political Corruption Impacts Culture From a traditional perspective, when people think of South America, many think of a group … Continue reading How Political Corruption Impacts Culture
What do we mean by an unlawful form of democracy? In the context of discussing the events of January 6, … Continue reading An Unlawful Form of Democracy
Is the United States a racist theocracy? As the last of three generations of Northern Irish Protestant descent settled in … Continue reading Trump’s attack on American “democracy” – Part 2 by Keith Hart
Donald Trump and the Republican Party Donald Trump may not have expected to win the 2016 presidential election. Once he … Continue reading Trump’s attack on American “democracy” by Keith Hart – Part 1
It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … Continue reading American Exceptionalism and Violent Protests
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … Continue reading World Orders Old and New – Latin America
Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … Continue reading The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings
The demise of national capitalism. To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system, … Continue reading How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3
The dialectics of form. “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most … Continue reading How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart
A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at … Continue reading How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart
The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. … Continue reading Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart
With all due respect and no malice intended but the George Floyd murder is not the first time African American … Continue reading Why George Floyd Matters
The Economic and Commercial Impact of Pandemics: By now, the COVID-19 influenza outbreak has reached practically all parts of the … Continue reading Pandemics: Agents of Global Change – Part 2
IV. The informal economy has taken over the World The idea of an informal economy was born in the 1970s … Continue reading New Preface to Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy by Keith Hart
Perspectives in Anthropology 