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The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor
by Ariel Wilkis* “Perhaps behind the coin is God.” — Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir (1949) My book The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor (Stanford University Press, 2017) offers a new focus for … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, community, ethnography, money, morality, politics, poverty, power, social networks, sociology of money, welfare
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Why after three decades of economic reforms in Latin America labor laws remained rigidly protective and remarkably diverse?
Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America shows that after three decades of economic reforms labor laws have changed far less than many expected and remained both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Why? In this very … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, Chile, globalization, institutional change, institutional continuity, labor, Latin America, law, neoliberalism, Peru, Political economy, politics, regulation, Unions
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Futures and ethnographies of neoliberalism
The special issue of Cultural Anthropology “Futures of Neoliberalism” (open access) offers theoretically-astute and fine-grained ethnographic analyses of the effects of profound changes across the Globe in various fields: workers’ wageless and disrupted life in Brazil, governance of young right-extremists in … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, anthropology, Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, class, debt, ethnography, Germany, homeownership, Israel, labor, neoliberalism, Nicaragua, poverty, precarity, Romania, South Africa
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Financial Centres and International Capital Flows in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our understanding of the workings and history of financial centres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the determinants … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, banking system, capital, economic history, financial centres, France, London, markets, New York, politics, regulation, Russia
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