Allain Caillé (; born 2 June 1944,

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) is a French sociologist and economist. He is Professor of sociology at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is a founding member of the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences (MAUSS) and editor of the movement's monthly journal "Revue du Mauss".GIVE IT AWAY By Anthropologist David Graeber, published at www.freewords.org
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Publications

Caillé's many books have been translated into many languages among them English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese. *Splendeurs et Misères des sciences sociales (Droz, Genève, 1986). *Critique de la Raison Utilitaire (La Découverte, Paris, 1989). *L'Esprit du Don (w. Jacques Godbout), La Découverte, 1992. *La démission des clercs. La crise des sciences sociales et l'oubli du politique (La Découverte, 1993) *Au-delà du salariat universel; Temps choisi et revenu de citoyenneté (Démosthène/M.A.U.S.S. Caen, 1994). *Don, intérêt et désintéressement. Bourdieu, Mauss, Platon et quelques autres. (La Découverte, 1994). *Le tournant de décembre (w. Jean-Pierre Le Goff), La Découverte, 1996. *Anthropologie du don. Le tiers paradigme, Desclée de Brouwer, 2000. *Association, démocratie et société civile (w. Jean-Louis Laville, Philippe Chanial et alii), La Découverte, 2001. *Bonheur et utilité. Histoire de la philosophie morale et politique (Edited by Alain Caillé, Christian Lazzeri et Michel Senellart), Éditions La Découverte/ 750 pages, 2001 *Paix et démocratie (w.

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), 2003, UNESCO, Paris. *Dé-penser l'économique. Contre le fatalisme. La Découverte, 2005.

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