ISBN:
9781912808267
,
1912808269
,
9781912808397
,
1912808390
Language:
English
Pages:
1 electronic resource (x, 299 pages) :
,
illustrations.
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
N 180: Theory, philosophy, analysis
;
N: Economic anthropology
;
N: Economics -- Sociological aspects
;
Edited volumes
Abstract:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies and good economies, and the dystopias of financial bubbles and busts, in which people's own lives 'crash' along with the reality of their economies. An ambitious anthropology of economy, this volume questions how assemblages of vernacular and scientific realizations and enactments of the economy are linked to ideas of truth and moral value; how these multiple and shifting realities become present and entangle with historically and socially situated lives; and how the formal realizations of the concept of the 'real' in the governance of economies engage with the experiential lives of ordinary people."
Description / Table of Contents:
MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Introduction. The real in the real economy / Federico Neiburg and Jane Guyer. Chapter One. The live act of business and the culture of realization / Fabian Muniesa - - Chapter Two. Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa / Deborah James - - Chapter Three. Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality / Eugénia Motta - - Chapter Four. What is a 'real' transaction in high-frequency trading / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra - - Chapter Five. Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina / Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis - - Chapter Six. A political anthropology of finance in cross-border investment in Shanghai / Horacio Ortiz - - Chapter seven. Corporate personhood and the competative relation in antitrust / Gustavo Onto - - Chapter Eight. Making workers real on a South African border farm / Maxim Bolt - - Chapter Nine. How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance / Caitlin Zaloom -- Chapter Ten. Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances / Fernando Rabossi. Afterword. The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? / Bill Maurer.
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: date of publication obtained from publisher website.
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