Economic anthropology. Lecture course at college de France (1992-1993)

Whether the revolution has spread that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most of the pre -capitalist societies, to the economy in the style of I am to you - characteristic of modern societies, to all areas of existence, as those who strive to apply to all practices model calculation of costs and benefits (including education or marriage, understood as an economic exchange of production and reproduction services)? Has it ended at least in the area that is based exclusively on the establishing tautology "Business Is Business"?
identifying the prerequisites of imaginary anthropology, characteristic of the theory of the economy in its dominant definition, Pierre Burdy in this work requires a different theory that would break with the idea of ​​individual solutions free from any restrictions, and replace the concept of a clean and perfect market with the concept of economic Fields structured by power relations and symbolic struggle