@inbook {, title = {Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, problems, and possibilities}, booktitle = {Theory in Economic Anthropology}, year = {2002}, note = {edited by Jean Ensmingerill., maps ; 24 cm"Published in cooperaation with the Society for Economic Anthropology."Theory in economic anthropology at the turn of the century -- Property rights and incentives for agricultural growth: women farmers{\textquoteright} crop control and their use of agricultural inputs -- Transaction cost economics: accomplishments, problems, and possibilities -- Experimental economics: a powerful new method for theory testing in anthropology -- Commodity flows and the evolution of complex societies -- Economic transfers and exchanges: concepts for describing allocations -- Polanyi and the definition of capitalism -- Chayanov and theory in economic anthropology -- Space, place, and economic anthropology: locating potters in a Sri Lankan landscape -- Indians, markets, and transnational studies in Mesoamerican anthropology: predicaments and opportunities -- Transcending the formal/informal distinction: commercial relations in Africa and Russia in the post-1989 world -- Commmodity chains and the international secondhand clothing trade: Salaula and the work of consumption in Zambia -- When good theories go bad: theory in economic anthropology and consumer research -- Decision making, cultural transmission, and adaptation in economic anthropology}, pages = {27-58}, publisher = {AltaMira Press}, organization = {AltaMira Press}, address = {Walnut Creek, CA}, keywords = {Economic anthropology}, isbn = {0759102058 (cloth alk. p}, author = {Acheson, James M.}, editor = {Ensminger, Jean} }