A research agenda for economic anthropology Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Since the financial crisis of 2008 the anthropological study of economic activity has profoundly changed. A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology poses new questions for anthropologists about the post recession world interrogating common social and political assumptions and stimulating innovative directions for research in economic anthropology. Employing a broad range of intellectual orientations this comprehensive book tackles the most pressing developments in economic anthropology. The stimulating and thought provoking chapters engage with the major features of modern economies including inequality debt financialisation neoliberalism and the ethics of economic practice as well as with the effects of social mobilisation and activism. The contributors shed light on previously overlooked topics reassess familiar subjects that need a fresh approach and share their own predilections concerning the modern economic world. With contributors ranging from senior academics to those early in their career this work is critical reading for any anthropologist concerned with the economy and economic activity. Those searching for novel questions or for a sense of the direction of the discipline will particularly benefit from this books broad inquisitive approach. Economic sociologists and geographers will also gain from the comprehensive coverage of the many facets of modern economies Contents: Introduction James G. Carrier 1. Collective economic actors Greg Urban 2. Research directions on states and markets Felix Stein 3. Inequality Tom Neumark 4. Debt financialisation and politics Fabio Mattioli 5. Resources: Nature value and time Jaume Franquesa 6. Management Stefan Leins 7. Mobilisation activism and economic alternatives Valeria Siniscalchi 8. Ethical economic practice Andreas Streinzer 9. An anthropology of the deplorable Mark Moberg Index.