The workshop, building on the 2015 LSE conference on “Money, Livelihood & the Classic Conceptual Repertoire in the 21st Century; a conversation across the disciplines”, and taking further a growing collaboration (partly Mellon-funded) between LSE, Wits and Michigan, will analyze capitalism from the global south, from multiple disciplines and perspectives, and take further a developing set of debates between anthropology and (development) economics. It will look more broadly at the global south but with a focus on Africa south of the Sahara. At the core is the formulation of methodologies and constructs that allow us to interrogate the processes of extraction, accumulation and livelihood generations that define capitalism in the global south in the twenty-first century. The effort involves theoretical tension. Hegemonic disciplines and constructs, often developed in the north and formulated by academics situated in the north or south, have used universalizing concepts and theories to analyze the global south; this in turn has affected the theorizing that underlies policy generation and influenced the trajectory of capitalist development in the south. The workshop will critically assess these efforts while generating new and innovative insights through interdisciplinary conversations.