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SUMMARY:On money\, debt and morality: Before Smith\, Smith\, After Smith -
  Chris Gregory (The Australian National University)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Address\n\nIntroduced by Dame Marilyn Strathern\n\nChr
 is Gregory (The Australian National University): On money\, debt and moral
 ity: Before Smith\, Smith\, After Smith\n\nThe lecture is free and open to
  all\, no registration required.\n\nAbstract\n\nWhy do we use the word 'de
 bt' when we want to say that money-lending is a bad thing and 'credit' whe
 n we want to say that it a good thing? As the concept 'negative reciprocit
 y' suggests\, the language of anthropological thought is part of the probl
 em not the solution. Adam Smith's theories represent a turning point in th
 e history of European thought on this matter. Economic anthropology is def
 ined by its opposition to Smith's alleged theory of 'natural economy' but 
 this notion is a straw man. Malinowski created this totem and we have inhe
 rited today it via Mauss and Polanyi. A cursory glance at Smith's theory o
 f moral economy reveals the pre-Smithian nature of much economic anthropol
 ogy but there are prominent exceptions and these women can help us grasp t
 he moral dimension of 'sub-prime' lending as practiced in the domestic.\n\
 nThis lecture is part of the CRASSH conference Debt: for more information\
 , please click here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1339/.
LOCATION:Room 3\, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, 8 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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