Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy /
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Foundations
- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics
- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria
- Public economic cultures
- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer)
- Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
- From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism
- Cultures of calculation
- The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation
- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms
- Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies
- Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter"
- Toward ethnography and the people's economies
- Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price
- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present
- Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?