Im Herbst 1989 vernimmt der erst 18-jährige Thomas Piketty wie der Rest der westlichen Welt gebannt die Nachricht vom Zusammenbruch der kommunistischen Diktaturen und des "real existierenden Sozialismus". Alle Gegenentwürfe zum Kapitalismus scheinen krachend gescheitert. Doch 30 Jahre und eine...

Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London's Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume's first...

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative data, the paper describes the dibao program, estimates the program?s impact...

In the modern competitive world, the greatest asset of any organization is its “Employees”. Employee is an individual who delivers his service to the workplace where he is being employed. Today, there is a new way for reaping the best of the organization through “Employee Development”....

A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank’s '$-a-day' line because it is (1) clearly related to survival and well...