Keith Hart is a co-director of the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria and Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide (with Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, 2010) and Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique (with Chris Hann, 2011).

• Preface: The Human Economy ProjectKeith Hart and John SharpIntroductionKeith Hart and John Sharp Chapter 1. After the Big Clean-up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in ZimbabweBusani MpofuChapter 2. Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of  Death in VendaFraser McNeill Chapter 3. ‘Letting Money Work for Us’: Self-organization and Financialization from Below in an All-male Savings Club in SowetoDetlev KrigeChapter 4. Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in PretoriaJohn SharpChapter 5. Negotiating Inequality: the Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, BrazilDoreen GordonChapter 6. Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape VerdeJuliana Braz DiasChapter 7. Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South AfricaSaint-José Inaka and Joseph TrapidoChapter 8. Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: the Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican IndiansJason SumichChapter 9. Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in NepalMallika ShakyaReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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