ABSTRACT
Bourdieu’s language seems to borrow from economics many of its basic notions; furthermore, he broached this disciplinary field in one of his books dedicated to the analysis of the social structures of the economy. The aim of this chapter is, precisely, to scrutinise Bourdieu’s economic anthropology, to try to dispel misunderstandings and also to put forth a range of arguments in favour of a thesis which some critics would find paradoxical: far from straining himself to the analysis of reproduction, he provides a series of factors of change, particularly institutional ones. Incidentally, one may establish certain parallels with the objectives, if not the concepts and methods, of the economic research programme on the modes of régulation.
