Initiation a l'anthropologie economique : resume de cours

The economic anthropology course proposes to examine notions or facts whose supposed "evidence" leads them to be studied closely, from a point of view very unfamiliar to economists or statisticians. The problems of defining "household" in places where there are varied forms of family organisation illustrates the need for "qualification" of the quantitative data before implementing economic and statistical methods. So that we can come right to the nature of the questions for which the anthropological approach can improve the economic approach, we will examine a series of examples in order to introduce the course's foundations. The examples chosen concern the problems of metrics (1); to the gap that can separate country logic from the rationality of development projects (2); to end by examining a few preconceived ideas in developmental economics (3).