Tag: economy

• The poison in the gift: The problem with debt

  

  The modern-day financial credit systems in North America and Chile closely resemble older forms of gift exchange, especially when considering the qualities inherent in all gift societies’ system of exchange. Mauss argues that all valuable objects in gift economies are due to its inherent ability to attach itself to persons, for example through identity or history (Graeber, 2001). However, Graeber affirms…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  anthropology, bloch, chile, credit, cultural anthropology, debt, domestic relations, economy, exchange, gift, graeber, greece, han, hau, hierarchy, mauss, meneley, money, mortality, parry, potlach, social, spirit, the gift, tournaments of value, yemen

• Reflection: The relationship between economic growth and the health of societies

  

  The idea of economic growth as central to development or the precursor for health, is fundamentally flawed. For example, globalization and the expansion of technology, especially where there are wage inequalities between different industries, has led to increases of income inequality (Birn et al. 2017). Rather than defaulting to mainstream approaches of disease control and…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  bangladesh, birn, chapter 13, economy, education, finance, health, holistic, international aid, international development, microfinance, outreach, poor, profit, social indicators, society, textbook of global health