Money in an Unequal World: Keith Hart and His Memory Bank. This item is unavailable.Money in an Unequal World: Keith Hart and His Memory Bank

Hart believes that humanity stands on the threshold of a new era in which there will be a pressing need to develop, conceptually and in practice, an awareness of the common problems facing world society as a whole. We have scarcely begun to contemplate how to establish and maintain the social, technological and cultural infrastructures we will need to survive in the 21st century. In a polarized world characterized by staggering economic inequalities, recent advances in technology offer radical possibilities for the development of human freedom and equality. Hart€™s particular focus in this book is the Internet, which he argues holds the potential for a re-personalization of economic relations. In this world, new means of exchange could be harnessed to the ends of a truer economic democracy. Money is the problem, but it is also the solution. Hart, an anthropologist by training, offers a new view on the interaction between money, capitalism, and culture €“ now, in the future, and throughout history. The many important strands of thought and experience in this book will challenge established views from all quarters of economic, political, and social thought.

Keith Hart is an anthropologist who introduced to economics the concept of the informal economy. Hart has taught in a number of universities on both sides of the Atlantic, especially at Cambridge. There he was the Director of the African Studies Center and received the first ever teaching prize in the humanities and social sciences. He has carried out research in Ghana, the Caribbean and South Africa and has worked as a journalist, consultant and gambler. He founded Prickly Pear Press and the amateur anthropological association. He now holds a research post at the University of Aberdeen and lives in Paris.