CAPITALISM, KINSHIP, AND FRAUD The Case of Bernie Madoff

Investment broker Bernie Madoff ran what is still considered the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors over a 20-year period of more than $20 billion. He worked his game almost entirely through kinship connections—relatives, friends of relatives, and relatives of friends. The relationship between kinship and capitalism has drawn renewed attention by anthropologists, part of a broader effort to rethink capitalism not as a free-standing ‘economy’ but as deeply embedded in a wide range of social relations. In this article I use the Madoff case to illustrate, and develop further, several aspects of the kinship/capitalism connection. I also consider briefly the boundary between fraud and ‘legitimate’ capitalism, which many economic historians consider a fuzzy boundary at best

Formulation and optimization of the energy-based blended quasicontinuum method

We formulate an energy-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling method based on blending the quasicontinuum method for the simulation of crystal defects. We utilize theoretical results from Ortner and Van Koten (manuscript) to derive optimal choices of approximation parameters (blending function and finite element grid) for microcrack and di-vacancy test problems and confirm our analytical predictions in numerical tests

Formulation and optimization of the energy-based blended quasicontinuum method

We formulate an energy-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling method based on blending the quasicontinuum method for the simulation of crystal defects. We utilize theoretical results from Van Koten and Luskin [32] and Ortner and Van Koten [24] to derive optimal choices of approximation parameters (blending function and finite element grid) for microcrack and di-vacancy test problems and confirm our analytical predictions in numerical tests

Who Shapes the Text?: Sherpas and Sahibs on Mount Everest

Also CSST Working Paper #56.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51213/1/446.pd

Author Meets Critics: Reactions to 'Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties'

Also CSST Working Paper #32.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51166/1/398.pd

Response to Allen

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73004/1/aa.1993.95.3.02a00170.pd