Of Poverty and Wealth is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on three pre-eminent economic historians, Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones.

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.

PART I
Jack Goody: Some Personal Memories - Alan Macfarlane Jack Goody - In conversation with Eric Hobsbawm
PART II
My Encounter with Clifford Geertz - Alan Macfarlane Clifford Geertz - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane
PART III
My Encounter with Philippe Descola - Alan Macfarlane Philippe Descola - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane