Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and HistoryISBN: 978-0-7456-2605-5
Hardcover
288 pages
April 2001, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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'Robertson daringly goes to the heart of the private and
collective body in search of the dark forces of social and
ecological destruction. This is no ordinary work, but an ambitious
reach across discourses and vast time spans. He challenges us to
think in fundamental ways about "growth", and how the very concept
once misapplied leads to malignant outcomes.'Harvey Molotch, New
York University
"The book is a compelling and timely read -fast paced, at times
quite playful, and decidedly passionate- in which the author
develops a critique of anthropological theory, as well as of
capitalism, by using greed as the analytical focal point...This is
a finely crafted book that will readers much to consider through
its provocative advocacy of a new moral economics" James H.
McDonald, Anthropogical Theory
Although it is fluent, engaged, and ocassionally funny, this is not an easy book. THat is because Robertson asks us to make a significant change in the ways that we as academics think about the world. It is worth the effort, though. The rewards are great." James G. Carrier, The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute