The real economy essays in ethnographic theory / edited by Federico Neiburg and Jane I. Guyer.

Other author Neiburg, Federico B.
Other author Guyer, Jane I.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago, IL : Hau Books, [2020]
Descriptionx, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents 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.
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