Political economy, neoliberalism, and the prehistoric economies of Latin America / edited by Ty Matejowsky, Donald C. Wood.

Outgrowth of a workshop entitled Hidden Hands in the Market held in Sussex in April 2007, and continued exploration of the topic of ethical consumption at the 2008 meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Preface / Donald C. Wood -- Understanding intersections of development, neoliberalism, and prehistoric economies : an overview of REA / Donald C. Wood, Ty Matejowsky -- Sweatshop exchanges : gifts and giving in the global factory / Jamie Cross -- Seeking abundance : consumption as a motivating factor in cities past and present / Monica L. Smith -- Economic anthropology after the great debate : the role and evolution of institutionalist thought / Justin A. Elardo -- Protestant ethic and prosperity : vegetable production in Almolonga, Guatemala / Andrés Marroquín Gramajo, Luis Noel Alfaro -- Simple financial economic models of prehistoric Fremont maize storage and an assessment of external threat / Kerk L. Phillips, Renee Barlow -- Of coyotes, crossings, and cooperation : social capital and women's migration at the margins of the state / Anna Ochoa O'Leary -- Culture trumps reason : how Wall Street manipulated the American dream to enrich itself and why the victims of the scam were put out on the street while the perpetrators were rescued by the government / Sidney M. Greenfield -- A theory of the ancient Mesoamerican economy / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- The late prehispanic economy of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico : weaving threads from data, theory, and subsequent history / Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas -- Wealth on the hoof : camelid faunal remains and subsistence practices in Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule -- Interregional interaction and social change at El Dornajo / Sarah R. Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references.