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This document discusses capitalism and markets from an anthropological perspective. It defines capitalism as one way of organizing markets, not synonymous with markets themselves. A key point is that capitalism seeks to establish markets and market economies as autonomous spheres with their own laws and history. Capitalism is viewed not as a natural phenomenon but as a formative process that disciplines, formats, and performs the categories of economy through representations, institutions, and the calculati

Author

Aluysio Athayde

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EN