When Wealth Was Good and Poverty Sin: Profit, Greed, Generosity, and the Creation of the Noble Merchant in Konrad Fleck's &lt;i&gt;Flôre und Blanscheflûr&lt;/i&gt;

Altpeter-Jones, Katja

doi:10.1353/egp.2011.0005

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Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economies of Greed and Excess

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Kuijt

2014

Economic Anthropology

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In March 2011, the Society of Economic Anthropology held its Annual Meeting Conference, hosted at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, to discuss the topic: Social Economies of Greed and Excess: Lessons from Recessions Past and Present. Specifically time during the social, economic, and political aftermath of the Great Recession (2007–2009), the articles were chosen to understand “greed” and “excess” as behaviors, ideas, and accusations that have shaped and in turn, been shaped by social processes, across different societies and at different periods in human history. This article (a) contextualizes the conference and the subsequent discussion of greed and excess within the broader narratives of causation and accusation between various actors and groups involved in and affected by the outcomes of differential accumulation and consumption of resources, (b) introduces the various articles raging from archaeology to ethnography and commentaries by noted anthropologists that may potentially inform the larger debate on greed and excess within anthropology, and even generate new directions for collaborative anthropological inquiry into “greed and excess” and the human condition.

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Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economies of Greed and Excess

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Kuijt

2014

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Greed Is Bad, Neutral, and Good: A Historical Perspective on Excessive Accumulation and Consumption

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Kuijt

2014

Economic Anthropology

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Any investigation into the topics of greed and excess is necessarily hampered by the inability to frame and define these concepts for general application to human behaviors. These terms carry significant moral, social, political, and cultural weight, primarily used either as accusations of sin, vice, and social destruction or justified for their virtues, rewards, and social good. In trying to understand the social and economic underpinnings of the behaviors we may term as greedy and excessive, we recognize the need for also exploring why these topics have almost universally been addressed in religions, philosophies, and social rules across the world, whether in sanction and condemnation, or in tolerance or even encouragement. This article investigates the ways in which major philosophical traditions across the world have viewed greed and excess, their impacts on society, and how the meanings and connotations of these terms have changed through time, since the Bronze Age to the present. We suggest that these terms and behaviors are temporally and culturally dependent, and that any investigation into the larger topic of greed and excess must begin with understanding and accommodating the variation in their meaning and social impacts.

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Trade, Traders, and Trading Systems: Macromodeling of Trade, Commerce, and Civilization in the Indian Ocean

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Trade and Civilisation

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When Wealth Was Good and Poverty Sin: Profit, Greed, Generosity, and the Creation of the Noble Merchant in Konrad Fleck's <i>Flôre und Blanscheflûr</i>

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economies of Greed and Excess

Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economies of Greed and Excess

Greed Is Bad, Neutral, and Good: A Historical Perspective on Excessive Accumulation and Consumption

Trade, Traders, and Trading Systems: Macromodeling of Trade, Commerce, and Civilization in the Indian Ocean

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