The Money and Markets Workshop will emphasizes the role of ethnographic fieldwork and historical findings to critically analyze economic assumptions. The workshop provides a forum for both theory and research into empirical, “on the ground” economic behavior around markets, money, and consumption, which allows researchers to observe and deduce the various social and cultural factors that influence and problematize this behavior. This workshop aims to build an interdisciplinary community of student and faculty to both critique and complement rational economic theories about individual and group economic behavior, through factors such as social, cultural, and historical specificity.