ISBN:
978-1-912808-26-7
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 299 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Geld Wirtschaftsethnologie
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Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Südafrika
;
Brasilien
;
Argentinien
;
China
;
USA
;
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Abstract:
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. Featuring essays from some of the world`s most prominent economic anthropologists, The Real Economy is a milestone collection in economic anthropology that crosses disciplinary boundaries and adds new life to social studies of the economy. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Contributors -- 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 / Eugênia 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 competitive 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
