A New Commonwealth — Ver 5.0
These posts to the ASA Globalog in November 2009 were part of a series about anthropologists’ contributions to understanding the financial crisis.
1. “In the long run we’re all dead” (Keynes)
2. “The great economic revolutions are monetary in nature” (Mauss)
3. The limits of naivety for the anthropology of money
The two great memory banks are language and money. Exchange of meanings through language and of objects through money are now converging in a single network of communication, the internet.
We must learn how to use this digital revolution to advance the human conversation about a better world. Our political task is to make a world society fit for all humanity.
keith@oac
