The economic anthropology: theory and terminology issues

Theory in Economic Anthropology

For many of the contributors to this volume, theory is a method for describing preindustrial societies, rather than a set of testable propositions derived from a model. Nevertheless, a number of the essays on different societies may be of interest to comparative economists. Joseph Henrich presents a sophisticated argument against the use of cost/ benefit analysis to explain peasant agricultural...

Political Terms by APLL: Issues of Terminology Implantation and ‎Acceptability

The present study investigates the implantation of political science terminology approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) in the Hamshahri corpus made up of news text from Hamshahri newspaper and their acceptability among MA students of English translation studies (ETS), English literature (EL), and Political science (PS). To conduct this research the frequencies of the...

Comment on Economic Anthropology

Dear reader, in the last issue we looked at economic anthropology, and the current issue contains a comment on this by the anthropologist Chris Hann. The theme of the issue is economics. In our leading article, sociologists and economists look closer at economics. One conclusion, after having looked at contemporary economics, is that economists are getting closer to sociology. Rainer Diaz-Bone ...

8890 Economic Theory , Applications and Issues

Reviews linear break-even analysis as typically outlined in textbooks on managerial economics. It is claimed that a major shortcoming of these expositions is their failure to demonstrate in what circumstances linear break-even analysis is relevant for a business and in what circumstances it is inapplicable. This article helps rectify this situation. It points out that such analysis can not be a...

Physical Anthropology and Gender Issues