Berkley Center

Jane I. Guyer, professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, presented the first paper in a series of five addressing economic theory, policy, and people’s practice in our present moment of increased uncertainty. Others are devoted to confusion, hope, price, and rhetoric. They result from the need to better frame the key questions we engage with during intensive fieldwork on current economic life, which in this case has concerned the past and present economies of West and Equatorial Africa, most recently in marginal gains.