Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guyer, Jane I. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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?