Anthropology and Economics
评论弗雷德里克·普赖尔的《经济的起源》，认为经济学对研究原始社会很有用，但该书缺乏理论框架，而信息与不确定性经济学可提供这一框架，解释原始社会制度如何替代正式保险市场。
The advance of economics into the traditional domains of other social sciences has thus far largely overlooked anthropology. In this review article on Frederic Pryor's The Origins of the Economy I argue that economics has many fruitful applications to the study of primitive society. I fault Pryor's book for its lack of a theoretical framework and argue that such a framework can be derived from the economics of information and uncertainty. In particular, it can be argued that many primitive social institutions are substitutes for formal markets in insurance.