George Dalton (economist)
George Dalton (1926–91) was a noted New York born economic anthropologist. Following Karl Polanyi's work (The Great Transformation(1944)), he helped promote and develop the substantivist approach. Dalton studied under Polanyi at Columbia (1950–51), did a PhD in economics at the University of Oregon (1959) and then went on to work at Northwestern University between 1961 and his death in 1991.[1][2] Andre Gunder Frank produced fierce criticisms of Dalton's approach (and Dalton has a nice reply).[3]
Selected publications[edit]
- Paul Bohannan and George Dalton, eds. 1962. Markets in Africa. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
- George Dalton, ed. 1967. Tribal and Peasant Economies: Readings in Economic Anthropology. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press.
- Dalton, George. 1971. Economic Anthropology and Development: Essays on Tribal and Peasant Economies. New York: Basic Books.
- George Dalton, ed. 1971. Studies in Economic Anthropology. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association.
- Dalton, George. 1975 Economic Systems and Society: Capitalism, Communism, and the Third World, Penguin
References[edit]
- ^ Northwestern University Archives / George Dalton (1926-1991) Papers https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/1085
- ^ Isaac, B. L. (2018). Dalton, George (1926–91). The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-3.
- ^ Frank, Andre Gunder, (and in reply George Dalton). "On Dalton's" Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology"." Current Anthropology 11, no. 1 (1970): 67-71.