François Régis Mahieu is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. During the 1980s, he taught for eight years at the University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He carried out numerous missions in Sub-Saharan Africa for international organizations. He is the founder of the association "Fund for Research in Economic Ethics", FREE, and scientific advisor to International Mixt Research Unit "Résiliences" (Institute of Research for Development, Paris and Ivorian Center for Economic and Social Research, Abidjan). He has published several books to illustrate his approach, including Altruisme. Analyses économiques (1998), Ethique économique, fondements anthropologiques (2001), Ethique économique (2003, with Jérôme Ballet), Responsabilité et crimes économiques (2008), Autour de l'anthropologie économique, actualité des écrits du Professeur André Nicolaï (2014), and Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person (2014).

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers. However, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics. This book argues for a new economic anthropology which goes beyond the conflict of economics and anthropology to show the complementarity of the approaches.

Introduction 1. Nature of economic anthropology 2. Anthropology and economic theory, a difficult association 3. Integration of personal responsibility 4. An anthropology of human and social vulnerability 5. The suffering of the person Conclusion Glossary References