The Real Economy
Essays in Ethnographic Theory
by Federico Neiburg, Jane I. Guyer
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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. 
Book Description
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.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The live act of business and the culture of realization
Chapter 2
Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa
Chapter 3
Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality
Chapter 4
What is a 'real' transaction in high-frequency trading
Chapter 5
Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina
Chapter 6
A political anthropology of finance in cross-border investment in Shanghai
Chapter 7
Corporate personhood and the competitive relation in antitrust
Chapter 8
Making workers real on a South African border farm
Chapter 9
How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance
Chapter 10
Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances
Book Details
Title
The Real Economy
Subject
Economics and Finance
Publisher
HAU Books
Published
2020
Pages
310
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781912808267
ISBN10 Digital
1912808269
PDF Size
4.2 MB
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