Introduction: barter networks and information islands Paul Seabright; Part
I. Theory: 1. Some lasting thing: barter and the value of money Jayasri
Dutta; 2. Barter Relationships Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole; 3. An
anthropological view of barter in Russia Caroline Humphrey; Part II. Large
Scale Empirical Studies: 4. Barter in post-Soviet societies: what does it
look like and why does it matter? Alena Ledeneva and Paul Seabright; 5.
Different types of non-monetary transaction in Russia Simon Commander and
Christian Mummsen; 6. Barter in Russia Sergei Guriev and Barry W. Ickes; 7.
The household in a non-monetary market economy Simon Clarke; 8. Barter in
transition economies: competing explanations confront Ukrainian data Dalia
Marin, Daniel Kaufmann and Bogdan Gorochowskij; 9. Barter and non-monetary
transactions in transition economies: evidence from a cross-country survey
Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright; Part III.
Ethnography: 10. How is barter done? The social relations of barter in
provincial Russia Caroline Humphrey; 11. Shadow barter: economic necessity
or economic crime? Alena Ledeneva; 12. Surrogate currencies and the wild
market in Central Siberia David G. Anderson; 13. Bear skins and macaroni:
the social life of things at the margins of a Siberian state collective
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov; Conclusion: what is to be done? Paul Seabright and
Simon Commander.
