In a world of social inequality, health disparities, and poverty, the economic value of people remains unrecognized, undervalued, and exploited. Recently, the ongoing conflict between capitalist markets and human value came to the fore again during the coronavirus pandemic, when many health systems were unprepared. In the United States, business and government leaders feared that quarantines would damage the economy. Their public statements urging the reopening of stores and public spaces pitted market value against the value of human lives. How can anthropology bring the value of people to light? How have varied societies valued human lives, qualities, and works? The articles in this special issue develop the 2019 Society for Economic Anthropology conference theme “Wealth‐in‐People.” Inspired by ethnographies of certain African societies, the wealth‐in‐people literature has moved from politics and demography to inequality and marginalization to the pricing of life, and has settled on wealth‐in‐people as a collective that assembles individuals with diverse and complementary qualities. Collectives of wealth‐in‐people build on these qualities, including knowledge, skill, beauty, emotional and distributive labor, and artistic expression. They become more than the sum of their parts. Seen from our current moment, wealth‐in‐people as a theory of value takes us beyond false choices between the economy and people. By illuminating forms of economic life from the ground up, the wealth‐in‐people approach, like similar recent concepts, including the human economy and social worth, can catalyze a more democratic economy.

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体现的价值：富人

在一个社会不平等，健康差距和贫困的世界中，人们的经济价值仍然未被人们认识，被低估和被剥削。最近，在冠状病毒大流行期间，资本主义市场与人类价值之间持续不断的冲突再次凸显出来，当时许多卫生系统没有做好准备。在美国，企业和政府领导人担心隔离区会损害经济。他们的公开声明敦促重新开放商店和公共场所，使市场价值与人的生命价值相抵触。人类学如何彰显人的价值？不同的社会如何看待人类的生活，素质和工作？本期特刊中的文章介绍了2019年经济人类学学会会议的主题为“人中的财富”。受某些非洲社会的民族志的启发，人们的财富文学已从政治和人口统计学发展到不平等和边缘化，再到生活定价，并以人们的财富为集体，聚集了具有多种互补性的个人。这些人的财富建立在这些素质之上，包括知识，技能，美丽，情感和分配劳动以及艺术表现。它们不仅仅是它们各部分的总和。从我们当前的角度来看，人的财富作为一种价值理论，使我们超越了经济与人之间的错误选择。通过从头至尾地阐明经济生活的形式，与最近类似的概念（包括人类经济和社会价值）一样，以人为本的方法可以催生更民主的经济。